Professor Valerie Stead
The contemporary gender challenges that hamper women’s progression in the UK workplace.
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Businesses put gender equality and inclusivity high on their agenda. Media coverage of gender issues at work has never been greater, and we are seeing increased legislation to recognise the importance of gender equality including pay gap reporting and shared parental leave policy. Yet despite this attention, women continue to be under-represented in positions of power in organisations.
The Gender Matters project created in 2018 aims to shed light on this resilient problem by drawing on a range of international and national sources to identify the scope and range of gender challenges facing UK organisations.
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Gender equality is a global concern and one of the UN sustainable development goals, yet women continue to be under-represented in positions of power in organisations in the UK and globally.
In this special International Women's Day 2021 research event, The Academy for Gender, Work and Leadership teamed up with the Centre for Family Business on the theme of 'Achieving Gender Equality at Work in a Global Context; challenges and pathways.' Facilitated by Professor Ellie Hamilton, short presentations from Professor Valerie Stead, Dr Sophie Alkhaled and Dr Giovanna Campopiano each took a different perspective ranging from the broad organisational context to entrepreneurship and family business.
You can watch the presentations below.
The contemporary gender challenges that hamper women’s progression in the UK workplace.
Research on entrepreneurship as a legitimate space for feminist solidarity and political activism in non-democratic countries
A discussion of the most up-to-date topics in research on women’s involvement in family business
Research by LUMS gender scholars features heavily in a curated reading list by the journal Management Learning in conjunction with Talking About Organizations Podcast.
Professor Valerie Stead is author/co-author for three of the eight articles, and Dr Marina Yusupova, who has recently joined the Department of Entrepreneurship and Strategy as Senior Post Doctoral Research Associate, is co-author of one of the articles, which are all selected from the journal as top reads on the topic of ‘Gender and Feminism’ in management and organization studies.
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