The Institute for Women's Leadership (IWL) at Rutgers University is a consortium of ten units based at the Rutgers-New Brunswick campus.

[2] IWL leads activities in three broad areas: Model leadership programs for women in the public and private sectors, interdisciplinary research on women's leadership, and collaborative programs that utilize the experience of unit members for the benefit of the consortium.

The goal is to encourage the interdisciplinary examination of leadership in the different contexts of science, technology, politics and public policy, the arts, business, law, the humanities, higher education, and the global arena, while considering perspectives of gender, race, ethnicity, and age in exercising leadership.

Notable publications include: Launching the Institute for Women's Leadership Consortium in the late 1980s, Mary S. Hartman, then Dean of Douglass College,[3] began to meet informally with the directors of the women's programs and centers located on the Douglass campus.

The founding directors of the new Institute for Women's Leadership were: Shortly after its founding, the Institute added the new Center for Women and Work, directed by Dorothy Sue Cobble at the Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations (1993).