| Lehigh Valley Business and the Central Penn Business Journal's new Empowering Women awards recognize companies and organizations that have shown a strong commitment to supporting and elevating women in Pennsylvania. Empowering Women is designed to showcase tangible and innovative efforts by companies, law firms, nonprofits and other organizations to advance women in the workplace and community. Companies should demonstrate a commitment to some or all of the following: • Have a track record of recruiting, hiring and promoting women in their organization.
• Offer a mentoring program for women.
• Work toward systemic change in society to combat inequality.
• Place women on their board or C-Suite.
• Contribute to advancing the cause of women through outside philanthropic or community endeavors.
• Support programs that assist marginalized women.
• Provide scholarship assistance to women.
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