Canada best G20 country to be a woman, India worst

LONDON, June 13 (TrustLaw) - Policies that promote gender equality, safeguards against violence and exploitation and access to healthcare make Canada the best place to be a woman among the world's biggest economies, a global poll of experts showed on Wednesday.

Infanticide, child marriage and slavery make India the worst, the same poll concluded.

Germany, Britain, Australia and France rounded out the top five countries out of the Group of 20 in a perceptions poll of 370 gender specialists conducted by TrustLaw, a legal news service run by Thomson Reuters Foundation.

The United States came in sixth but polarized opinion due to concerns about reproductive rights and affordable healthcare.

At the other end of the scale, Saudi Arabia - where women are well educated but are banned from driving and only won the right to vote in 2011 - polled second-worst after India, followed by Indonesia, South Africa and Mexico.

"India is incredibly poor, Saudi Arabia is very rich. But there is a commonality and that is that unless you have some special access to privilege, you have a very different future, depending on whether you have an extra X chromosome, or a Y chromosome," said Nicholas Kristof, journalist and co-author of "Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide", commenting on the poll results.

The poll, released ahead of a summit of G20 heads of state to be held in Mexico June 18-19, showed the reality for many women in many countries remains grim despite the introduction of laws and treaties on women's rights, experts said.

"In India, women and girls continue to be sold as chattels, married off as young as 10, burned alive as a result of dowry-related disputes and young girls exploited and abused as domestic slave labor," said Gulshun Rehman, health program development adviser at Save the UK, who was one of those polled.

"This is despite a groundbreakingly progressive Domestic Violence Act enacted in 2005 outlawing all forms of violence against women and girls."

TrustLaw asked aid professionals, academics, health workers, policymakers, journalists and development specialists with expertise in gender issues to rank the 19 countries of the G20 in terms of the overall best and worst to be a woman.

They also ranked countries in six categories: quality of health, freedom from violence, participation in politics, work place opportunities, access to resources such as education and property rights and freedom from trafficking and slavery.

Respondents came from 63 countries on five continents and included experts from United Nations Women, the International Rescue Committee, Plan International, Amnesty USA and Oxfam International, as well as prominent academic institutions and campaigning organizations. Representatives of faith-based organizations were also surveyed.

The EU, which is a member of the G20 as an economic grouping along with several of its constituent countries, was not included in the survey.

Canada was perceived to be getting most things right in protecting women's wellbeing and basic freedoms.

"While we have much more to do, women have access to healthcare, we place a premium on education, which is the first step toward economic independence and we have laws that protect girls and women and don't allow for child marriage," said Farah Mohamed, president and CEO of the Canada-based G(irls) 20 Summit, which organized a youth gathering that took place in Mexico in May, ahead of the G20 leaders' meeting.

Experts were divided on the situation in the United States.

Civil rights and domestic violence laws, access to education, workplace opportunities and freedom of movement and speech were positive. But access to contraception and abortion were being curtailed and women suffered disproportionately from a lack of access to affordable healthcare, some experts said.

"Many of the gains of the last 100 years are under attack and the most overt and vicious attack is on reproductive rights," said Marsha Freeman, director of International Women's Rights Action Watch.

BARRIERS TO DEVELOPMENT

It is more vital than ever to protect women's freedoms at a time of political upheaval in several parts of the world, some experts said.

"Times of political transition, we've learned the hard way, can also be times of fragility, and when rights for women and girls can be rolled back instead of advanced," said Minky Worden, director of global initiatives at Human Rights Watch.

Women's rights are particularly under attack in G20 host country Mexico, which ranked 15th in the survey. Mexico has a culture of male chauvinism, high rates of physical and sexual violence and pockets of poverty where healthcare and other services are no better than in some of the most marginalized communities of Africa, experts said.

Women are also victims of drug-related crime. Some 300 women were killed in 2011 in the violent border town of Ciudad Juarez with almost total impunity, said Amnesty USA.

"The violence affects men and women but often women disproportionately," added Worden. "Mexico is a place where law enforcement remains a challenge, and the government has an obligation to protect women, but often fails in that obligation, as it does to protect men."

Putting women's rights on the global agenda is the key to progress and to effective development, said Kristof. Countries that restrict women's rights and freedoms or fail to protect them from injustices will suffer long-term, socially and economically, he added.

While the poll was based on perceptions and not statistics, U.N. data supports the experts' views.

The Gender Inequality Index (GII), which looks at reproductive health, the labor market and empowerment of women through education and politics, named the same three countries as the worst places for women, although Saudi Arabia ranked the absolute worst in the GII, followed by India.

The GII, however, does not include gender-based violence or other elements such as the fact that many women carry additional burdens of caregiving and housekeeping.

When it came to what country was best, the expert perception did not match U.N. data. The GII ranked Germany, France and South Korea as the top three countries, in that order. Canada came seventh and the United States was in tenth place.

Activists were not surprised by the experts' favorable view of Canada, however.

"Having an understanding of Canadian culture and tracking the work they're doing around violence against women and gender equality, I believe that Canada really has been emerging as a model for what most countries should aspire to for a long time," said Jimmie Briggs, journalist, author and founder of the Man Up Campaign that works to engage youth to stop violence against women and girls.

HOW THEY RANK 1. Canada 2. Germany 3. Britain 4. Australia 5. France 6. United States 7. Japan 8. Italy 9. Argentina 10. South Korea 11. Brazil 12. Turkey 13. Russia 14. China 15. Mexico 16. South Africa 17. Indonesia 18. Saudi Arabia 19. India

(Additional reporting by Courtney Harvey and Lisa Anderson in New York)

(For full coverage of the poll visit http://g20women.trust.org)

(TrustLaw is a free legal news site run by Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters. Visit http://trust.org/trustlaw. For more information on the TrustWomen Conference visit http://trustwomenconf.com)

(Editing by Sonya Hepinstall)

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The issue of immigration-or even the mention of immigration enforcement-has been wholly neglected by the presumptive nominees of this country?s two major political parties. Even as prominent politicians find new ways in which to exploit ethnic divisions for the sake of political expediency, the perverse incentives of America?s federal immigration policies remain unaddressed. While Democrats seek to harvest what they expect to be a political windfall from Hispanic voters, Republicans pander, or hispander?as some deem it, to what they view as an ascendent voting bloc, even going so far as introducing a bill eerily similar to one the GOP staked its reputation opposing during the final hours of a Democrat-controlled Congress.

That?s why the speech delivered by David North-seen above-at the Penn Club last month-the final one in this year?s lecture series sponsored by the Center for Immigration Studies-was such a welcome relief, especially for those of us who are looking for reliable, empirical data which illuminates the dimensions of the problem we?re facing. A former Labor Department official, Mr. North is currently an expert on legal migration patterns and processes for CIS. In that capacity he?s demonstrated just how immigration reforms enacted by Congress, from the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, to the mass amnesty of 1986 known as Simpson-Mazzoli, to the Immigration Act of 1990-which introduced the horrifying concept of the Visa Lottery-have irreparably altered the demographic future of the United States.

Although long on statistical analysis and number crunching, North?s speech was anything but dull, especially to those interested in how the mechanics of American immigration dovetail with the politics, which often seem inscrutable to people not immersed in this field. One of the most trenchant observations made during the course of his speech was an explanation of how the patterns of legal immigration have changed over the past several decades. Just over half of legal immigrants today get green cards as a result of Adjustment of Status, i.e. they are already in the United States when they become permanent legal residents. This marks a sea change in immigration policy, yet one that is barely scrutinized by the mainstream media, which seems intent upon intentionally misrepresenting the issues at stake, if they examine those issues at all. A good place to start is with the Immigration Yearbook, a compilation of statistical data examining foreign nationals who became legal residents, were newly naturalized, or applied for asylum during the previous fiscal year.

Although the data collected by the Department of Homeland Security is not comprehensive-the lack of any program monitoring the arrival and departure of non-citizens being one of its more glaring deficiencies-it is the most accurate portrayal of foreign nationals living in this country who are not part of the vast population of illegal aliens. One of the key insights you glean when looking at the population of legal immigrants in the United States is that most of them hail from a handful of nations. In fact, the top 10 feeder countries?from which this country?s foreign-born population is drawn account for an exceptionally large percentage of America?s immigrant population, Mexico alone being the native country of close to thirty percent of immigrants. The reason for this is the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, which abolished the National Origins Formula?which had governed American immigration policy since the 1920s, replacing it with a system of family reunification that has dramatically altered both the composition and size of America?s immigrant population.

Although Mr. North condemned the pre-?65 quota system-which included a blanket prohibition of Asian immigration-he did praise the Dillingham Commission, which devised the proscriptive formula, for devoting resources to answering questions that even today remain unexamined by the ostensible stewards of our federal government. Even so, North criticized the model which replaced our pre-existing immigration system-which had held legal immigration to a few hundred thousand people per year-for its agnosticism towards skills and reliance upon family reunification, independent of merit. He suggested that adopting skills-based preferences, a la Canada or the United Kingdom, would be a step in the direction of redressing the glaring deficiencies of our current immigration system.

However, there are flaws with adopting such a policy, beginning with the obvious reservation opponents would raise. Namely, that supporters of unfettered immigration would never consent to a corresponding restriction of unskilled immigration, a point illustrated in an article by Mark Krikorian during the last major congressional debate over amnesty legislation. Moreover, the notion that immigrants are required to fill job openings in STEM fields, although a popular one among open borders dogmatists, is belied by the facts.

Perhaps the greatest objection to adopting the system of either Canada or Australia though, is the realization that embracing foreign nationals who are technically skilled or highly educated does nothing to address the cultural consequences of immigration. One need only look at the wave of honor killings in Canada-or the United States-in order to grasp the essential truth that simply coming from an upwardly mobile, well educated demographic cohort does not necessarily mean that you are an assimilable or desirable immigrant. The retrograde customs and mores of a minority of some immigrant groups that might otherwise seem like attractive additions to the beautiful mosaic that is the United States are but one reason to look askance at anyone promising a panacea based upon a points-based system.

Even so, most people would agree that, all things being equal, seeking out immigrants on the basis of what they can contribute to the United States-rather than what we can give them-would be an improvement upon our current immigration policy. Although 68 year-old Peruvian retirees might very well be laudable individuals, the idea of resting a rapidly decaying welfare state upon their shoulders is utterly foolish. That?s why?David North?s lecture was so instructive. It shed light upon just why and how our immigration policy had failed, and gave us some ideas for ?how these problems might be rectified in the future.

If we ever do attempt to address this issue in a serious manner, I?m certain that it will be because of the work of people such as Mr. North and organizations such as the Center for Immigration Studies.

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Who Will Fill the Seat of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords?

By MICHAEL FALCONE ( @michaelpfalcone ) and AMY WALTER ( @amyewalter )

NOTABLES:

DESERT DUEL: An emotionally-charged special election to fill the seat of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords could either provide a psychological boost for Democrats after a spate of bad news or it could become one more sign that Republicans are on a roll. Today's election pits Democrat Ron Barber, a Giffords staffer who was wounded in the Jan. 2011 shooting in Tucson, against Republican Jesse Kelly. Recent polls show Barber with an edge.

ELECTION NIGHT IN ARIZONA? Polls close at 10pm ET. Given the large percentage of the vote that has been cast absentee (election officials estimate between 55 and 60 percent), there is a possibility that a winner in the Barber-Kelly showdown can be declared rather quickly.

?AND AROUND THE COUNTRY. Voters also take to the polls to cast their ballots in Maine, Virginia, Nevada, North Dakota and South Carolina today, notes ABC's Elizabeth Hartfield. Residents of those states will decide on a series of contests including a special election, a crowded Republican Senate primary and a decision on whether to change a university nickname. http://abcn.ws/ L2bX39

NOTE IT! In today's virtual political roundtable, ABC's Senior White House Correspondent Jake Tapper wonders whether the position of Commerce Secretary is simply cursed, ABC News Political Director Amy Walter notes the emerging view of some Democratic strategists who say the election may ultimately turn on one question - "are you better off today than you were four years ago?" And Rick Klein weighs in on what a victory in Arizona would mean for Democrats.

THE NOTE:

Now more than ever, Democrats could use a shot in the arm of good news.

After a bruising few weeks on the presidential battlefield and the stinging loss in the Wisconsin recall election one week ago, a win in today's special election to fill the House seat vacated by Congresswoman Gabby Giffords could be just what the doctor ordered.

It would be an emotional victory too. The Democratic candidate, Ron Barber, is a member of Giffords' staff who was also shot in the Jan. 2011 assassination attempt that left the congresswoman wounded and six others dead.

Vying to flip the seat into Republican hands is former U.S. Marine Jesse Kelly, the Tea Party-aligned GOP nominee. Kelly, 30, lost his 2010 race against Giffords by just 4,000 votes.

A win would allow Democrats to put some distance between themselves and last week's loss in Wisconsin. After all, as ABC News Political Director Amy Walter points out, this is not a slam dunk Democratic district. Sen. John McCain won it in 2008 and George W. Bush carried it in 2004. Republicans have a significant registration advantage there too.

It's nearly impossible for any state or local election between now and November not to be seen against the backdrop of the national political landscape. Arizona is no different.

It's a state that Democrats insist they have a shot at winning. "We can win Arizona," Obama campaign manager Jim Messina declared back in February. "People said last time, 'Oh, you can't win Virginia,' until we did. 'You can't win Florida,' until we did. 'You can never win North Carolina,' until we did."

And yesterday the massive labor union, SEIU, and the pro-Obama super PAC, Priorities USA, joined forces to launch a $4 million Spanish-language ad campaign aimed at a segment of the electorate that could be one of President Obama's firewalls against Mitt Romney this fall. (Notably, the groups chose Florida, Nevada and Colorado as the initial target states. Arizona did not make the cut).

For their part, Republicans dismiss Democratic talk of winning the state as pure posturing and say they hope the Obama campaign and its allies will spend money there - money that won't be available for their other priorities.

BOTTOM LINE: Regardless of what happens in the race to replace Giffords, the new congressman will have to run again in the general election in November - this time in a new district that has a much more significant Democratic lean to it. As such, we should expect this district (soon to be known as Arizona's 2nd Congressional District) to be in Democratic hands one way or another come next January. http://abcn.ws/MyEuIz

NOTE IT!

Our virtual political roundtable:

ABC's JAKE TAPPER: The position of Commerce Secretary has been extremely problematic for the Obama administration. Chicago businesswoman Penny Pritzker, who was said to be the president's initial choice for the post, took herself out of the running. (It was reported that her business ties would not pass the vet). His first official pick, then New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, pulled his name from consideration due to an ongoing campaign finance investigation back in his state. His second pick, then New Hampshire Sen. Judd Gregg, a Republican, withdrew his name citing "irresolvable conflicts" with the president over policy. His third pick, Gary Locke, got it, and then left to become U.S. Ambassador to China. Now all this. No wonder the White House wants to get rid of the position! It's cursed!

ABC's AMY WALTER: Despite the raft of bad economic news, some Democratic strategists insist that the election will turn on more than the question of "are you better off today than you were four years ago." In a memo released yesterday by the group Democracy Corps, Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg writes:

"It is elites who are creating a conventional wisdom that an incumbent president must run on his economic performance - and therefore must convince voters that things are moving in the right direction. They are wrong, and that will fail. The voters are very sophisticated about the character of the economy; they know who is mainly responsible for what went wrong and they are hungry to hear the President talk about the future." (Read the full memo: http://bit.ly/LMJ74X)

It is true that voters and campaigns are more complex than the one dimensional characterization they often get by the media. That said, elections are also a lot simpler than we make them out to be. Voters are either happy with the status quo or they aren't. Moreover, Obama's case for how things will get better in the future remains murky.

ABC's RICK KLEIN: There may not be moral victories in politics, but there are psychological ones. For Democrats, holding on to former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' House seat would be one of those - and not just because the party desperately needs some bad news after an awful two-week stretch. This is "Gabby's Seat," with an aide who was wounded in the same shooting she was looking to continue her legacy. That legacy is nothing if not an appeal to national unity. A loss in today's special-election by Democrats would be a kind of double-blow, at a time that party members are taking more than their share of punches.

NEW OBAMA AD HITS ROMNEY ON MASSACHUSETTS DEBT. ABC's Devin Dwyer reports: President Obama's re-election campaign has spent weeks trying to drive home the point that Massachusetts was at the back of the pack in job growth under Gov. Mitt Romney. Now, a new campaign TV ad touts a stat on which Romney's state surged to the front - per capita debt. "Number One," a 30-second spot, claims Massachusetts debt grew $2.6 billion during Romney's tenure between 2003 and 2007 to $18 billion, or $4,153 per person, according to Moody's 2007 State Debt Medians cited in the ad. http://abcn.ws/KxN9vV

ROMNEY RESPONSE: "President Obama has overseen trillion-dollar deficits, soaring national debt and the first credit downgrade in history," Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul said in a statement. "Mitt Romney, on the other hand, closed a $3 billion budget shortfall, balanced four budgets, left a $2 billion rainy day fund and received a credit rating upgrade. President Obama will do anything to distract from his abysmal economic record and - despite that record - the fact that he thinks the private sector is 'doing fine.' Mitt Romney knows our country can do better and, under his leadership, it will do better."

STATE OF THE RACE: PENNSYLVANIA. President Obama leads Mitt Romney 46 percent to 40 percent among Pennsylvania voters, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll released this morning. But, by a 49 to 41 percent margin, voters say Romney would do a better job on the economy. The overall results haven't changed significantly since a May 3 poll showed Obama leading Romney 47 percent to 39 percent. "President Barack Obama is holding his ground against Gov. Mitt Romney in Pennsylvania. While almost four-fifths of voters, including 58 percent of Republicans, say the President is a likable person, where the rubber meets the road on the campaign trail - the economy - Romney has the lead," Quinnipiac pollster Tim Malloy. "Pennsylvanians may like the president more than they like Mitt Romney, but the warm and fuzzy feeling gives way to the cold hard truth of a still shaky economy."

THE BUZZ

with ABC's Elizabeth Hartfield ( @LizHartfield)

COMMERCE SEC. TO TAKE MEDICAL LEAVE. ABC's Jake Tapper and Mary Bruce report: Secretary of Commerce John Bryson is taking a medical leave of absence after a bizarre series of car accidents over the weekend in Los Angeles left him unconscious at his car steering wheel and cited by police for leaving the scene of an accident - a felony offense. Bryson has not been charged and he passed a breathalyzer Saturday night. http://abcn.ws/KOvnJi

VIDEO OF THE DAY: READ MY LIPS, DON'T SIGN 'NO NEW TAX' PLEDGE. Jon Karl talks tax reform with South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham in the latest episode of his Power Players series "Spinners & Winners." As a conservative Republican, Lindsey Graham has never had a problem promising not to raise taxes. Like almost every other Republican member of Congress, during his last re-election campaign, he signed the anti-tax pledge put forth by Grover Norquist's group Americans for Tax Reform. But now Graham says the debt crisis is so severe that the tax pledge - which says no tax loopholes can be eliminated unless every dollar raised by closing loopholes goes to tax cuts - has got to go. http://yhoo.it/LPTByy

NEVER TOO EARLY: ROMNEY'S SECRETARY OF STATE - WHO MIGHT IT BE? As Washington guessing games go, curiosity over America's next Secretary of State might fall second in line behind the intrigue-laden Veepstakes, reports ABC's Chris Good. Romney has adopted a notably hawkish foreign-policy/national- security platform, one that may limit his choice to lead the State Department if he insists on hiring a secretary who agrees with him on everything. http://abcn.ws/ KkfwkE

MEET MITT ROMNEY'S 'SIXTH SON'. Bloomberg's Lisa Lerer reports: "Few advisers are as close to Romney, 65, as Zwick, the 32- year-old aide who's spent nearly all of his professional life working for the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. For about a decade, Zwick has been by Romney's side, traveling from the spires of Salt Lake City to the halls of the Massachusetts statehouse. Now, as Romney takes his fundraising effort into overdrive in preparation for the fall election, he's once again entrusted the task of bankrolling his campaign to Zwick, who is so close to the Romney family that he's often referred to as their "sixth son" by campaign workers. http://bloom.bg/ Mx5LLT

WOULD ROMNEY CUT FIREFIGHTERS? Mitt Romney's campaign is doing little to suggest that the candidate's recent comment about cutting back on firefighters, police officers and teachers has been taken out of context, reports ABC's Matt Negrin. At first it seemed as if Romney's statement about President Obama - "He says we need more firemen, more policemen, more teachers. Did he not get the message in Wisconsin? The American people did. It's time for us to cut back on government and help the American people." - was an unfortunate phrasing or combination of thoughts. But today, the campaign didn't provide any clarification on the record of what else Romney might have meant to say. http://abcn.ws/KxLZkf

TOEING THE LINE IN MASSACHUSETTS SENATE RACE. If you watch or listen to an ad for Senator Scott Brown in Massachusetts, chances are you'll hear at least one of the following terms; bipartisanship, compromise, Red Sox, notes ABC's Elizabeth Hartfield. One term you might not hear: Republican. http://abcn.ws/ MzBagi

ROMNEY HOPES SUPREME COURT WILL 'DO THE RIGHT THING'. ABC's Emily Friedman reports, Mitt Romney Monday said he hopes the country's highest court "does the right thing" and overturns the health care plan established by President Obama. "Gosh, I hope they do the right thing and turn this thing down," said Romney during a high-dollar fundraiser in Atlanta, where donors had paid as much as $50,000 for time with the presumptive GOP nominee. http://abcn.ws/NucVpe

REMEMBERING WATERGATE (AT THE WATERGATE.) ABC's Chris Good reports, One June 17, 40 years ago, five men broke into Democratic offices at the Watergate hotel and office building, and were caught - an event that would change both politics and journalism in the United States. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the reporters who broke the story, still sound amazed. "This story was like getting into a warm bath, and then it got hotter and hotter and hotter, so we were able to withstand the heat," Bernstein said, as the two were interviewed by CBS's Charlie Rose tonight at The Watergate complex in Washington, D.C., at an anniversary event hosted by The Washington Post, the newspaper for which Woodward and Bernstein broke the scandal. http://abcn.ws/JYbnht

WHY OBAMA DIDN'T CAMPAIGN IN WISCONSIN. In his first public reaction to the Wisconsin recall election that saved Republican Gov. Scott Walker's job, President Obama said today that he "would have loved to have seen a different result," but was adamant that the election does not have broader implications for November, reports ABC's Mary Bruce. The president backed Barrett from afar but did not campaign on the ground. Asked why he didn't visit the state Obama said "the truth of the matter is that as President of the United States, I have a lot of responsibilities." http:// abcn.ws/LEHMPl

FLORIDA, FEDERAL GOV., SUE ONE EACH OTHER OVER VOTER PURGE PROGRAM. ABC's Kyle Blaine and Jason Ryan report: The state of Florida Monday filed a suit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, claiming the federal agency restricted access to information on people who might not be eligible to vote. The suit indicates that Gov. Rick Scott will continue to defend Florida's controversial voter verification program, which the U.S. Department of Justice targeted earlier this month as being in violation of federal statutes. The Justice Department has sent a letter to the Florida Secretary of State regarding its voter list maintenance program informing the state that DOJ will seek court action to stop the purging of voter rolls in the State. The letter was sent in response to a letter from the Florida Secretary of State dated June 6, 2012. http://abcn.ws/Mocdrq

ANGUS KING MAKES A LAST STAND FOR MODERATION IN MAINE. The Washington Post's Ed O'Keefe reports: "Angus King, a popular former Maine governor and the favorite to become the state's next U.S. senator, thinks the way to win an election in 2012 is to stake out the middle ground, crusade against partisanship and present himself as a devout independent. It is a bold strategy in this hyperpartisan age, and the depths of his moderation are captured by two photographs positioned side by side at his campaign headquarters: one of Ronald Reagan, the other of Robert F. Kennedy." http://wapo.st/ LM5CXS

GOP CHAIRMAN NOT CUTTING CHECKS FROM CAMPAIGNS TO NRCC. The Hill's Rachel Leven reports: "More than two dozen House chairmen have not given any money from their campaign war chests to the Republican committee tasked with defending the GOP's majority. The lack of direct transfers from Republicans in senior positions comes during a cycle in which the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) has outraised the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC)." http://bit.ly/Kk3N5r

A UCTIONING GEORGE WASHINGTON'S CONSTITUTION. ABC's Matt Negrin reports: What did George Washington actually think about the Second Amendment? What was his view on the role of the Supreme Court? Did he doodle in the margins? These questions - and more - could be answered when the auction house Christie's puts Washington's personal Constitution up for sale. It's expected to go for between $2 million and $3 million. http://abcn.ws/L2bg9X

IN THE NOTE'S INBOX:

-FROM CONCERNED WOMEN FOR AMERICA: "Concerned Women for America (CWA) President Penny Nance announced today the launch of "She Votes 2012," a million-dollar nationwide campaign to get out the vote in the November general election. The goal is to raise awareness and activism of women in key states, resulting in stronger conservative leadership on the state and national level. CWA President Penny Nance said. "We need conservatives to turn out in great numbers in order to get legislation passed that will move our great country back to a secure footing." The "She Votes 2012? campaign will work to mobilize members in key states to change the trajectory of our nation through grassroots education and activism. Organizers will focus on three main areas: Voter registration; Voter identification; Voter turnout." www.shevotes2012.org

WHO'S TWEETING?

?@Chris_Moody : 10 things you might not know about Marco Rubio from @RoigFranzia's new book http://yhoo.it/L2bFIf #veepstakes

@samyoungman : Podium sign at Romney event in Orlando: "Repeal and Replace Obamacare"

@peterbakernyt : Seeking to return to Senate, Bob Kerrey asks telling question: "Am I going to be miserable if I win?" @mattbai explores http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/magazine/yes-bob-kerrey-wants-to-go-back-to-washington.html

@jackgillum : From @kasie: Romney's approach to campaign openness: Keep secrets and release only what law says he must http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/sns-bc-us-romney-transparency,0,6842692.story

@joshtpm : Stephen Colbert Endorses The Banana Bunker http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/06/stephen_colbert_banana_bunker.php via @TPM

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Job ID: 467342

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Location: Dayton, Ohio, United States

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Posted: 06.11.2012

Job Description

Requisition ID 7145BR
Title Pharma Field Sales - District Business Manager (DBM) - Dayton, OH
Job Category Sales
Job Description Pharma Field Sales - District Business Manager (DBM) - Dayton, OH

PURPOSE:
To develop and lead sales teams in the execution of sales strategies that increase profitability to maximize sales objectives. Works with RBD to manage, train, develop staff, and prepare regional budget and business plans. This is an entry level district business manager position.

RELATIONSHIPS:
Reports to the Regional Business Director. Manages a region's sales force, and has direct supervisory responsibility for Pharmaceutical Sales Representatives. Works closely with RBD, peers and the home office to achieve sales objectives and to ensure the development of people. Other relationships include physicians, key accounts, co-promotion partners, associations, field and home office personnel.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES:

BUSINESS PLANNING
?Work to develop a full understanding of the content and then execute the regional business plan to achieve the fulfillment of Plan objectives/requirements. This includes delivery-of-care system delineation, account targeting, needs assessment, and program implementation.
?Execute regional level account targeting strategy in business unit to fulfill regional account targeting strategy requirements.
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?Oversee regional account relationship development/management. Manage critical regional account relationships and set account relationship development objectives for regional staff.
?Manage regional resource allocation.
?Monitor regional program/initiative effectiveness.
?Monitor performance against strategic account management objectives/directives.

COORDINATION/PARTNERSHIP
?Ensure contractual requirements are met for the region (# of physician calls per day).
?Work with RBD, DBMs, home office and CSO counterparts to gain insight into programs and initiatives.
?Gain an understanding of regional level coordination between field resources, intra-organization resources and inter-organizational resources. Work with RBD to incorporate district.
?Ensure appropriate level of coordination to attain regional business plan objectives.

ADMINISTRATION
?Communicate Regional activity of competitive products through timely submission of monthly highlight reports as directed.
?Review and audit expense reports.
?Evaluate appropriate use of regional resources to ensure attainment of profitability goals.
?Develop and monitor performance against regional budgets.
?Establish and oversee regional implementation, and monitor adherence to administrative policies and procedures.
?Ensure timely and accurate submission of administrative requirements.

ADHERE TO AND SUPPORT COMPANY POLICIES, PROCEDURES AND SALES/MARKETING DIRECTION. IMPLEMENT COMPANY POLICIES, PROCEDURES AND SALES/MARKETING DIRECTION THROUGHOUT THE RBU
?Monitor and reinforce the use of the Sales Force Automation System.
?Ensure timely and accurate transmission of DCS call data.
?Adhere to the Prescription Drug Marketing Act of 1987 and all related Novo Nordisk policies regarding the judicious use of physician samples and stock items.

DEVELOPMENT OF PEOPLE/MANAGEMENT
?Fill open territories with high quality talent within 6 weeks.
?Ensure that reporting personnel have Performance Achievement Plans with annual goals and measurements that are consistent with the priorities of the business, and that interim reviews are held so that their work is focused on those priorities, and they understand their level of accountability for results and the measurement process.
?Manage the application and communication of all Novo Nordisk policies, procedures, and Novo Nordisk Way of Management.
?Ensure that development and training plans are in place for all reporting personnel to enable the achievement of goals and capability to assume increased levels of responsibility.
ATTAIN AND MAINTAIN PROFICIENT LEVELS OF NNPI AND COMPETITIVE PRODUCT KNOWLEDGE
?Continuously improve the knowledge of Novo Nordisk products, competitive products, and management skills through ongoing home study and participation in company sponsored/approved training programs.

KEY SUCCESS FACTORS: EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:

? At least 5 Years Progressive Pharmaceutical/Healthcare Sales experience required
? 2 Years Previous Supervisory experience preferred
? Bachelor Degree required from College or University accredited by an organization recognized by the US Department of Education; major in Business or Marketing preferred.
? Top 20% sales ranking for 1 out of last 2 years, documented (Regionally)

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?A minimum of 50% travel required.
?Works within NNPI's established policies and procedures and ensures alignment of their work to Novo Nordisk Fundamentals.
?Minimum of 5 years of progressive pharmaceutical/healthcare sales experience required.
?Significant record of sales accomplishments.
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