Gendered experiences of leading and managing through COVID-19: patriarchy and precarity

Professor Sharon Mavin is Professor of Leadership and Organisation Studies and former Director at Newcastle University Business School. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Academy of Social Sciences and British Academy of Management, she is Chair of the Chartered Association of Business Schools Diversity and Inclusion Committee and Chair of the University Forum of HRD. Sharon’s recent research projects concern women elite leaders, gendered media, vulnerability and dirty work with recent publications in Management Learning, Human Relations and Gender, Work and Organization.

Marina Yusupova is a sociologist and postdoctoral researcher at Newcastle University, currently working on the project ‘Women Leaders: Ambition, Competition and Friendship’. She has a PhD from the University of Manchester (2017) and has previously been a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Stony Brook University (USA) and Aleksanteri Fellow at the University of Helsinki (Finland). Research interests include gendered leadership, feminist and queer theories in non-Western contexts, race and coloniality, critical men and masculinities studies.