Women and Business Chair
SKEMA’s Women and Business Chair is committed to promoting professional equality by combining academic research with educational initiatives. It develops practical initiatives to raise awareness, train students, and support businesses in fostering an inclusive and equitable culture.
Mission and objectives of the Chair
The Women & Business Chair aims to analyse and promote professional equality between women and men. As an institution committed to the development and training of future managers, SKEMA aspires to provide equal professional opportunities to all its students.
Despite laws and public initiatives implemented over many years, inequalities in treatment between men and women persist in the labour market. Multiple causes, including individual, social, political, and economic, intertwine to explain this situation.
The Women and Business Chair combats gender inequality through a coherent set of initiatives:
- Training sessions on gender stereotypes and sexist prejudices.
- Presentations of female role models (entrepreneurs, managers, CEOs, etc.).
- Group and interactive discussion sessions on issues of professional equality.
- Research programmes dedicated to women in business (research on women entrepreneurs, professional networks, women and leadership, women and performance, etc.).
Our commitment to gender equality reflects our deep conviction in a society where women and men enjoy equal opportunities.
The team
The Chair has adopted a collegial management structure centred on four professor-researchers from SKEMA Business School:
