EQUAL4EUROPE is delighted to invite you to participate in our Professional Development Workshop to discuss and share best practices promoting greater gender equality in business and management schools and higher education overall.

The workshop consists of 2 parts:

A panel discussion focusing on the challenges and opportunities in developing solutions for combating inequality in higher education. Panelists will share their experience and challenges of the EQUAL4EUROPE project within their institution.

The second part consists of 4 roundtables where panelists and attending participants discuss different thematic areas, share their insights, critiques, and institutional challenges into the respective topics and particularly discuss possible solutions and measure fostering gender equality in academia. The round tables will be lead each by one of the panelists.

The 4 roundtables focus on:

  • Does gender matter? Addressing gender in management research and teaching (a practical approach).
  • Experience and challenges in assessing the gender situation in your institution: ‘If we are not measuring it, we are not doing it.’
  • Internal networking for gender equality: How to find supporters and allies in your institution to implement gender equality plans and promote gender equality.
  • Possible solutions and measures fostering gender equality in academia.

Panelists are:
Dr Janka Kottulova, Comenius University
Dr Joana Vassilopoulou, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
Prof Hanneke Takkenberg, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
Dr Anna Ginès i Fabrellas, ESADE