International Conference on
"Gender and Diversity in Organizations"

This is the first announcement and call for papers for the international Conference on "Gender and Diversity in Organizations", an initiative from the AGRH “diversity and equality” special interest group, to be held at ESCP-EAP European Management School, Paris, France, on January 15th, 2009.

Although equal treatment and diversity management are established fields of research and management practices in Anglo-Saxon countries, they are relatively recent in Continental Europe. Anglo-Saxon research has begun to explore the rhetoric and the reality of such policies. The relationships between gender equality and diversity have been questioned, theoretically and empirically. On the other hand, it can be argued that the concept of Diversity enables to better seize the diverse dimensions of gender, i.e. the diverse realities of men and women’s employment and career situations but also the diversity of women (of class, ethnic origin, age…). The concept also evokes the potential benefits which employers can get from a gender diverse workforce.

Suitable topics of communications include but are not limited to :

• Studying gender inequalities in organizations and other dimensions of diversity (age,origins, sexual orientation) ;
• Implementing equality policies between women and men, in relation (or not) withdiversity management ;
• Analysing HRM and organisational practices with a gender perspective ;
• Evaluating organizational practices of equality and diversity management.

Download the call for paper