{"id":19249,"date":"2023-03-01T16:56:22","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T16:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/?p=19249"},"modified":"2024-07-30T09:41:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T08:41:04","slug":"professor-patricia-lewis-embracing-equity-at-next-mba-guest-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/2023\/03\/professor-patricia-lewis-embracing-equity-at-next-mba-guest-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Patricia Lewis &#8216;Embracing Equity&#8217; at next MBA Guest Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Our exciting MBA Guest Lecture Series continues on Friday 10 March 2023, covering the important topics of diversity and inclusion with a focus on women in leadership.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> This free hybrid event will run from 12.30 until 14.00 (GMT) on Zoom and in-person in the MBA Suite in Sibson. It will include no less than four esteemed guest speakers on our panel, the first being Professor Patricia Lewis.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/kent-business-school\/people\/2460\/lewis-patricia\">Professor Patricia Lewis<\/a> is an internationally recognised scholar working in the field of gender, management, and organisation studies for over 20 years. Her work has contributed to the development of theoretical and empirical understanding of how gender as a form of difference impacts on women\u2019s experiences of entrepreneurship, management, and organisations. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Patricia&#8217;s research aims to make visible the way in which organisations, entrepreneurs and managers are subject to and constituted by gendered cultural norms and how such constitution contributes to the persistence of inequality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Gender inequality is a significant societal challenge and a UN sustainable development goal, Professor Lewis has demonstrated in her research the durability of gender inequality patterns despite policy interventions. This points to the persistence of deep-seated cultural norms that reinforce disadvantage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">From mid-2017 to the end of 2020, Professor Patricia Lewis was Joint-Editor-in-Chief of <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Gender, Work &amp; Organization (CABS 3)<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> and prior to this she was an Associate Editor of the journal from 2011 to 2017. <\/span>She\u00a0hosted the 11<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0International Interdisciplinary\u00a0<em>Gender, Work &amp; Organization<\/em> Virtual Conference, Transforming Contexts, Transforming Selves: Gender in New Times, 30 June to 2 July 2021.<\/p>\n<p>She is currently a member of the editorial boards of <em>Organization<\/em> and <em>Gender in Management: An International Journal<\/em> and Consulting Editor for the <em>International Small Business Journal<\/em>.\u00a0Professor Lewis was elected to the British Academy of Management College of Fellows in September 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Details of the other two speakers will be announced later in the week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/files\/2023\/01\/Embrace-Equity-0031.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18711\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/files\/2023\/01\/Embrace-Equity-0031.jpg\" alt=\"Female MBA students embracing equity\" width=\"1200\" height=\"798\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">This is a free event and is open to all University of Kent MBA students, alumni and the wider business community.\u00a0<\/span><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJ0rduuhrTMrHte-z7Eu0jDpZrhjlkYrvzBk\"><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Register your place<\/span><\/b><\/a><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0today.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Imagine a gender equal world. A world free of bias, stereotypes, and discrimination. A world that\u2019s diverse, equitable, and inclusive. A world where difference is valued and celebrated. Together we can forge women\u2019s equality. Collectively we can all\u00a0<\/span><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.internationalwomensday.com\/Theme\"><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">#EmbraceEquity<\/span><\/b><\/a><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">.<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:2,&quot;335551620&quot;:2}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our exciting MBA Guest Lecture Series continues on Friday 10 March 2023, covering the important topics of diversity and inclusion with a focus on women &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/2023\/03\/professor-patricia-lewis-embracing-equity-at-next-mba-guest-lecture\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79181,"featured_media":19293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9875,124],"tags":[263896,170946],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19249"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19387,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19249\/revisions\/19387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}