Gender and Leadership: Gary N. Powell, Professor Emeritus of Management, University of Connecticut

12-1pm Friday, November 6th via Zoom

Gary N. Powell, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus of Management at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, CT. He is author of Gender and Leadership, Women and Men in Management (5^th ed.), Making Work and Family Work: From Hard Choices to Smart Choices, and Managing a Diverse Workforce: Learning Activities (3^rd ed.), and the editor of Handbook of Gender and Work. He is an internationally recognized scholar and educator on gender, diversity, and work-family issues in the workplace. His graduate course on women and men in management won an award on innovation in education from the Committee on Equal Opportunity for Women of the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). He has won the University of Connecticut School of Business Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award (four times) and Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award. He has received the University of Connecticut President’s Award for Promoting Multiculturalism.

Read Prof Powell’s paper on hypermasculinity and the ideal President: “Why Trump and Clinton won and lost: the roles of hypermasculinity and androgyny.”“Why Trump and Clinton won and lost: the roles of hypermasculinity and androgyny.”