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Co-editor / Discussant:

Prof Joan Ballantine is an accounting graduate and Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA).  She is currently Professor in Accounting at the University of Ulster and  teaches on a range of Masters’ courses in the areas of strategic management accounting, accounting and finance and research methods. She is an active researcher working in the broad areas of education, gender budgeting, entrepreneurship and gender, and gender in senior management. She has published widely in national and international peer-reviewed journals, sits on a number of editorial board positions and has examined numerous doctorates. Joan holds a number of board positions, including Board member at Banbridge District Enterprises and Cancer Fund for Children.

Panel members: 

Dr Melissa Langworthy - is a feminist economist specializing in inclusive and sustainable development, gender equality, and economic justice. She has 15 years of experience working on women’s empowerment, decent work, and capacity building for NGO, government, and corporate social programmes, including for Facebook, UN Women, Oxfam MENA, and the European Commission. Through her many publications, policy papers, and a forthcoming book, she continues to define and argue the terms and support needed to drive promotion of high quality, sustainable, and innovative women’s enterprise.

Dr Bronwyn P. Wood has a PhD in Marketing from Otago, in her native Aotearoa New Zealand. She currently teaches in the UAE, has a consultancy, (www .MuslimMarketingMatters.com) and is a Field Editor for the International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship. With publications across the business spectrum, particularly in Islamic Marketing and Women’s Entrepreneurship, Dr Wood applies her varied experience to perceptual and epistemological discussions of meaning and well-being. Interest areas are non-hegemonic methodologies, decolonization, social justice, and social and economic sustainability.

Dr Alena Křížková - is Head of the Gender and Sociology Department at the Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences. She uses qualitative and quantitative methods and develops an intersectional approach to the study of social inequalities. Her research focuses on economic and social justice, gender pay gap, work-life balance, production of inequality in organisations, entrepreneurship and innovation, and technological change. She was a Fulbright Scholar at Arizona State University for comparative CZ-US research on entrepreneurship environment for disadvantaged populations and gender equality. She is an expert in the "Scientific analysis and advice on gender equality in the EU" (SAAGE) for the European Commission, a board member of the Global Women's Entrepreneurship Policy network and a member of the Comparative Organisational Inequality Network (https://www.umass.edu/coin/). 

Dr Marie Pospíšilová - is a researcher at the Department of Gender & Sociology at the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences. She focuses mainly on qualitative research and on gender inequalities and precariousness in entrepreneurship, inequalities in the impact of crises on entrepreneurs, and the combination of formal and informal care.

Prof Nancy Jurik is Professor Emerita of Justice & Social Inquiry in the School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University. Her interests focus on work organization, entrepreneurship, and media constructions of gender and work.  Her books include Doing Justice, Doing Gender: Women in Legal and Criminal Justice Occupations (Sage), Bootstrap Dreams: U.S. Microenterprise Development in an Era of Welfare Reform (Cornell University Press) and Provocateur for Justice: Jane Tennison and Policing in “Prime Suspect” (University of Illinois Press). She has received distinguished researcher and mentoring awards from Arizona State University and several professional associations. She is a Global WEP member.