Conference Agenda

This article investigates the historical trends of women's migration from India to GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) countries, as well as the obstacles they confront in their destination countries. Indian women's migration to GCC countries has surged in recent years from a variety of states, including Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar etc. This migration trend is driven by job opportunities in various area such as hospitality, domestic work, healthcare and other manual work. Migrant women meet a variety of obstacles, including social and vulnerability, as they navigate a work environment marked by low wages, limited labour rights, exploitation, and controlled mobility in host countries. The migratory pattern also addresses gender issues, such as disparities in safe working conditions and equal treatment. Despite these issues, remittances sent by women migrants play vital role in supporting their family back home and have made a considerable contribution to local micro-economic development. The primary goal of this paper is to examine the remittances sent by women migrants to their families. It also highlights potential policy solutions provided by government institutions that can help to improve the experience of women migrants and their rights.

Gender is one of the first characteristics recognized in social interactions, making networking a gendered practice. Despite greater access to key positions in organizations, women’s network positions still differ from men’s. Networking is often perceived as a male-stereotyped behavior, making women less preferred networking partners, particularly in informal settings. In formal settings, where competencies are emphasized, women may temporarily overcome these stereotypes. Considering networking as a gendered practice, the behavior of male colleagues who support women (male allies, MA) during networking may lead to greater inclusion of women in favorable network positions. This study examines how women's positions shift across formal and informal networking phases and whether male allies facilitate their integration into central positions.

A social network analysis was conducted among 54 members (40 men; 14 women) of a male-dominated interorganizational research network in the STEM university sector. The network was assessed before, during, and after a daylong symposium, including an informal get-together. Additionally, self-reported MA behaviors were analyzed

No significant gender differences in centrality emerged during formal phases of networking. However, women’s centrality declined significantly in the informal phase, where they were also nominated far less frequently as contacts. Male allies, in contrast, maintained their central positions throughout.

These preliminary findings suggest that women integrate well into formal networking settings but become less favored network partners in informal contexts. While male allies remain central in both phases, they do not actively facilitate women’s inclusion in informal networking, highlighting the need to strengthen allyship beyond structured environments.

According to extant literature, respectful leadership style is one of the theoretical constructs that better captures empathy, collaboration, and social responsibility associated with women leadership. Despite possessing these qualities, women continue to face challenges in fully expressing their leadership potential.

Building on the Stereotyped Content Model, in this paper we investigate women's perceptions of respectful leadership and the associated challenges. Specifically, we seek to understand the gap between the expectations placed on women in leading respectfully and societal factors (i.e. confidence, societal expectations, or organisational barriers) that may hinder the adoption of this style.

To this end, we interview 44 female leaders from Italy and the UK. We employ Leximancer to map the key themes and concepts around respectful leadership style and women’s perceptions. We obtained a semantic network that visually identify the relationship between concepts, providing insights into the interconnected nature of leadership practices and social expectations.

Preliminary results show that women value respectful leadership for organisational success and relationships with employees. However, organisational context may hinder the adoption of this leadership. Our results provide empirical evidence on the complex roles women play in organisations and the barriers they face in fully expressing their identities and asserting their leadership.

Gender diversity may play an important role in shaping academic collaboration, career advancement, and access to mentorship opportunities. This study investigates whether gender diversity in different researchers’ settings (large and small) influence the professional development of researchers by analyzing co-authorship networks in the field of network science over the past nine years.

We identified research teams and collaboration patterns across academic disciplines by building attributed temporal weighted co-authorship networks. Our analysis seeks to uncover patterns and trends in academic collaboration groups, providing insights into how and in which way they succeed/evolve focusing on gender diversity.

Gender homophily is one of the most robust patterns in friendships, yet we lack clear insights into how structural factors shape this pattern. While extensive research has established that group composition influences patterns of homophilous associations, previous work has largely focused on ethnic contexts, where additional factors such as socioeconomic status and residential segregation complicate interpretation. Gender composition in schools provides a useful test case because, unlike ethnicity, it is usually unrelated to socioeconomic or residential barriers. We test two competing mechanisms for how gender composition shapes cross-gender friendship formation. The first suggests that increased mixing leads to more cross-gender friendships by providing greater opportunities for interaction. The second proposes a curvilinear relationship, where extremely imbalanced gender compositions may reduce cross-gender friendships due to heightened identity threat perceptions and stronger needs for group distinctiveness. Using random coefficient multilevel Siena models with sienaBayes, we analyze longitudinal friendship networks from two datasets: CILS4EU (794 classrooms across four countries) and Hungarian secondary schools (40 classrooms). This methodological approach allows us to examine how gender composition shapes the evolution of friendship ties while accounting for structural network dependencies. Our preliminary results reveal that the effect of gender composition may be gender-specific: while boys' preferences remain stable in response to the gender composition, girls' friendship choices vary. At moderate boy ratios, girls form more cross-gender ties, but in highly male-dominated classes, they cluster together and strengthen same-gender preferences, reinforcing gender-segregated structures.