An international conference,  Leadership through the Gender Lens: Women, Men and Equality in Organisations at Hanken on October 22 and 23, 2009 brings together critical analyses and debates on gender, leadership and management.
How leadership and management are gendered can mean more gender equal or more gender unequal conditions for women and men. It can also enhance the quality and value of leadership.
The overall aim of the conference is to generate new thinking, policy and action about women, men, gender and leadership. The conference aims to provide a creative forum for interaction between scholars and researchers on leadership, organisation and management, together with managers of different kinds from business, government and community. HR managers and other practitioners with an interest in theoretically-informed research will find much of interest.

Keynote speakers include Professor Albert Mills, St. Mary’s University, Canada, Professor Susan Vinnicombe, Cranfield University, UK, and Professor Anna Wahl, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. Nearly 60 papers will be presented in parallel sessions. Abstracts for presentations have been received from 18 countries.

The conference is organised by NASTA, Women’s Leadership, Research and Education Development Project, a national co-operation project between Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki School of Economics and Jyväskylä University. The project is funded by the Ministry of Education.

More information on the conference can be obtained from the NASTA website www.nastaproject.fi conference 2009 and Project Manager Liisa Husu, liisa.husu@hanken.fi.

"The conference is now fully booked, but Hanken staff and students are welcome to the keynote lectures and panel
discussion taking place in the Aula. The conference programme is available
at the website www.nastaproject.fi > conference2009."