Prof. Y.W.M. Benschop (Yvonne)

Yvonne Benschop is Professor of Business Administration, Organizational Behavior. She is affiliate professor at the Center for Gender in Organizations of Simmons School of Management, Boston, USA.
Together with prof dr Mieke Verloo and prof dr Anna van der Vleuten, she is leading the multidisciplinary research hotspot Gender and Power in Politics and Management, in which 25+ researchers from Business Administration, Political Science, Economics and Geography, Planning and Environment collaborate.
Her teaching, research and adisory work centers on the function of gender and diversity in contemporary organizations. She is interested in informal organization processes that produce inequalities and in the ways to change these processes and inequalities. Current research projects include the intertwinement of gender practices and networking practices; gender and inclusion in leadership; a European comparative study on gender in precarious academic careers (GARCIA, www.garciaproject.eu)
and the development of interventions and instruments for organizational change towards gender equality, diversity and inclusion.
She is Co-Editor in Chief of Organization, associate editor of Gender, Work and Organization, and serves on the editorial boards of several other journals