
Why gender-balanced leadership matters in uncertain times
A growing coalition of leaders is taking decisive action to accelerate gender-balanced leadership. Five of them explain why diversity is the first step toward building resilience.
Professor Heejung Chung is Professor of Work and Employment at King’s College London, Director of the King's Global Institute for Women's Leadership, and the author of the book The Flexibility Paradox: why flexible working leads to (self-) exploitation.
Her research area is comparative labour market studies focusing mostly on work-family research, gender and other social inequalities, workers’ work-life balance and well-being outcomes. She is currently working on flexible working/remote and hybrid working, how it is stigmatised by managers and co-workers, how marginalised workers (women/BAME workers) may experience this differently, how this relates to our notions of the ideal worker, and policy solutions to tackle this bias.
A growing coalition of leaders is taking decisive action to accelerate gender-balanced leadership. Five of them explain why diversity is the first step toward building resilience.
A committee of UK politicians has made the recommendation to tackle the stigma around motherhood.
