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It is mandated to guide other UN agencies in forming policies and global standards for women's equality and ending gender-based violence, helping member countries implement those standards with technical and financial support to governments and civil society, and holding the UN's old-boy system accountable for those commitments and for achieving gender balance itself.

Ritu Sharma: Supporting a Real Women's Champion Ritu Sharma 2011

Ron Suskind's book Confidence Men makes the provocative claim that the early Obama White House was a "hostile work environment for women" because of the bullying and old-boy approaches of Summers, Emanuel, etc.

HuffPost Radio: Both Sides Now: Obama's "Math" Adds Up To "Happy Warrior"? HuffPost Radio 2011

But being able to massage that pedigree certainly doesn't hurt, and if there's an old-boy network in place hopefully by now including a few old girls willing to give you the benefit of the doubt and even a job, so much the better.

Network University Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

In a recent Pew Research Center survey, 49% of those surveyed listed the “old-boy network” as a major factor causing the lack of women in top level business positions.

Women Grow Business » From Boys Clubs To Woman Power 2010

Sen. Maria Cantwell calls out the federal old-boy network.

Today on PubliCola « PubliCola 2010

After going coed in 1968, however, the school began to shed its musty old-boy reputation.

William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011

Its the same old-boy system at it finest ... once you are cleared of wrong-doing ... sure we will put it in writing and smile and kee-kee with you doing conversations at lunch and social gatherings.

Senate Ethics Committee admonishes Burris 2009

The fact that Kean, an unremarkable player who held a number of low-profile assistant jobs before landing at Blackburn, is not part of soccer's old-boy network doesn't help, either.

Premier League Enters the Twilight Zone Gabriele Marcotti 2012

But being able to massage that pedigree certainly doesn't hurt, and if there's an old-boy network in place hopefully by now including a few old girls willing to give you the benefit of the doubt and even a job, so much the better.

Network University Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

And what can we, as women, do to overcome this “old-boy network”?

Women Grow Business » From Boys Clubs To Woman Power 2010