INSEAD Gender Diversity Initiative
INSEAD is one of the world’s leading and largest graduate business schools. It has two campuses (Singapore and France) and two centres in the Middle East (Israel and Abu Dhabi), 145 renowned faculty members from 37 countries, more than 1,000 degree participants – MBA, Executive MBA and PhD, and more than 9,500 executives from the world’s leading companies.
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INSEAD Gender Diversity Initiative
In 2008 The INSEAD established the Gender Diversity Initiative. The aim of the initiative is to coordinate, support and celebrate INSEAD's many activities relating to women’s participation in business and business education, and reinforce its commitment to harnessing the management potential of women from diverse cultures throughout the world.
Mission
INSEAD’s guiding principle is driven by the principle of cultural diversity. The INSEAD Gender Diversity Initiative was created to further emphasize the diversity component, with the view of increasing women’s representation in business and business education. The initiative builds on the many gender-diversity activities at INSEAD, across all programmes, all departments and all activities, and aims at making an impact on business not only at INSEAD but also elsewhere.
Research
The INSEAD Gender Diversity Initiative brings together a diverse group of INSEAD faculty and researchers from all business disciplines to investigate a range of topics relating to gender diversity in organisations. INSEAD also works with external stakeholders, whether corporate, public-sector or non-profit organisations, in order to influence business throughout the world.
The main research areas of the initiative are:
- Women and leadership
- Diversity and organisational performance
- Career and talent management
- Women and entrepreneurship
- Women and economic development
Teaching
The INSEAD Gender Diversity Initiative supports all activities that attract more women to the school’s degree and executive programmes, and is involved with developing innovative content that specifically addresses gender issues. It is also spearheading initiatives to support women teachers at INSEAD.
As a result, female participation is rising across INSEAD degree programmes, although further efforts are needed in order to increase representation of women at INSEAD – particularly in Executive Education programmes and, most of all, on the faculty.
More information
- For more information on Programmes, Scolarships, and Partners, visit the INSEAD Gender Diversity Initiative Website
- Contact
See also
- Link to Corporate Social Responsibility
- Wikigender page on Catalyst, one of the INSEAD Gender Diversity Initiative's partners
