"gender equality" blog posts
National Single Parents Day: Reflecting on single parents and employment
On National Single Parents Day, Dr Laura Radcliffe reflects on how we can attract, support and retain single parents in the workplace, with an emphasis on the added pressure faced by single mothers.
Posted on: 21 March 2024
Inspiring inclusion in the workplace: Narratives of constraint and flexibility among middle and older-age employed women
Management School alumni, Dr Lucy Ryan, and Professor Caroline Gatrell’s research looks into how are middle- and older-age women employees perceived and treated at work.
Posted on: 4 March 2024
Work-family habits? The persistence of traditional work-family decision making among working couples
New research co-authored by Dr Laura Radcliffe, looks into work-family habits and explores the persistence of traditional work-family decision making in dual-earner couples.
Posted on: 5 October 2023
BME Women: Breaking through the ‘concrete ceiling’ to achieve career success
As BME women remain dramatically underrepresented in the corporate world, Professor Lilian Otaye-Ebede and Dr Samah Shaffakat look into the experiences of ethnic minority female leaders to understand how they have overcome the ‘concrete ceiling’.
Posted on: 6 March 2023
Juggling childcare and work during COVID19: A mothers’ job
Dr Rachel Ashman, Dr Laura Radcliffe and Professor Caroline Gatrell delve into the experiences of working mothers during COVID19 and reflect on how national lockdowns caused a reversal to traditional gender roles.
Posted on: 3 March 2023
Job age discrimination for women starts at least 10 years earlier than for men
Professor Ian Burn's research responds to some of the key questions regarding age discrimination in recruitment and explains how this specifically affects women looking for jobs from as early as 40 years of age.
Posted on: 2 March 2023
Gender diversity reforms have helped UK company boards, but they are failing in other countries - new research explains why
Dr Jannine Poletti-Hughes explores the impact of independent female board directors on organisational performance, within the cultural context and family traditions of Latin America.
Posted on: 2 March 2023
The impact of domestic violence on female labour supply
With a staggering number of yearly victims of domestic abuse in the UK, Dr Noemi Mantovan explores how partner violence impacts women’s life choices with respect to partnership status, labour supply and fertility.
Posted on: 1 March 2023
Women proposing: Gender equality in wedding rituals?
Dr Daniela Pirani, Dr Vera Beckley-Hoelscher and Dr Ratna Khanijou take a critical look at how, while more women are pushing the boundaries, proposing to men reinforces the perception that marriage is the socially accepted way to move forward with relationships.
Posted on: 27 February 2023