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Dr. Kirton to Share Findings on Women as Leaders

October 25, 2007

Despite progress over the last two decades, women continue to be under-represented in leadership positions across most occupations and organisations in most countries.

This is one of the major finding by Dr Gill Kirton, Reader in Employment Relations at the School of Business Management in the Queen Mary College of the University of London.

Dr Kirton will be in Barbados next week to present this and other findings from her study: “Professional Women as Leaders: Barriers and Opportunities” in a seminar hosted by The Centre for Gender and Development Studies: Nita Barrow Unit of the Univesity of the West Indies, Cave Hill.

The seminar will be held on the campus in Lecture Room 12 of the New Teaching Complex on November 8, from 2 p.m to 4 p.m.

The focus will be on the barriers and opportunities facing women seeking leadership roles; the range of barriers created by the gendered structure of the labour market, occupations and organizations; and the negative impact on women’s careers presented by the interconnection between the public world of employment and work and the private domain of the household.

Kirton’s research interests are in the field of employment relations. Her recent published work focuses on the roles and activities of women within trade unions; gender and race equality in employment; organisational diversity management. Her published books include: The Dynamics of Managing Diversity (2000, 2005); Women, Employment and Organisations (2006); The Making of Women Trade Unionists (2006).

She also has several years of higher education teaching experience in Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management at the University of Hertfordshire and at London Metropolitan University.