| The British Psychological Society honours Manchester Business School’s Professor Lyn Davidson |
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The FINANCIAL -- The British Psychological Society's (BPS) Award for Promoting Opportunity of Equality has been presented to Professor Lyn Davidson (left in photo), work psychology expert at Manchester Business School.
The award is given in recognition of an individual's exceptional contribution to challenging social inequalities in the UK in relation to gender, race and ethnic origin, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, disability or age.
"Lyn is currently Co-Director of Manchester Business School's Centre for Equality and Diversity at Work. The Centre has been acclaimed for its research in equality, culminating in being nominated as an outstanding example in European Management Schools in Diversity Management Research and Teaching in 2008 by the European Academy of Business in Society," Manchester Business School informed.
On accepting the BPS' award Lyn said:
"I am absolutely delighted and honoured to receive this award and it's one of the highlights of my career. When I started in the early 1980s only three per cent of UK managers were female, today it's over 35 per cent. However, recently the Equality and Human Rights Commission calculated that at the current rate of progress, women managers will have to wait 187 years before their salary outstrips that of men's. Clearly we still have a long way to go!"
Through her work, Lyn has lead many projects that have been recognised for their excellence. Her development of Good Practice Guidelines for Building Equality in the Construction Industry, for the Department of Trade and Industry, was selected by the UK Equal Opportunities Commission as an example of best practice in research.
Dr Sandra Fielden, who nominated Lyn for the award, said:
"Throughout Lyn's career she has been committed to challenging discrimination and empowering people at work. For the past 25 years, her personal and passionate commitment to equality issues in the workforce - particularly in the areas of gender, women in management, race and ethnicity, female entrepreneurs and (more recently) sexual orientation - has been prolific and sustained in terms of practical applied research, publications and consultancy. Her prolific work in promoting equality of opportunities has made a real difference to many people's lives."
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