Dr. Layla Faisal

Dr. Layla Faisal is the first Bahraini PhD holder in Gender and Management Studies, and she has a Master Degree in Business Administration specialist in Human Resources Management: Gender Mainstreaming. She worked in Supreme Council for Women on National Plan for the Advancement of Bahraini Women “Partnership … Competitiveness … Sustainability … Stability”. She is also a well-known author in 4 books at social management areas and wrote 18 academic journal articles in Scopus index. She is an assistant professor in the Business School at Bahrain Polytechnic leading the Research Committee and Coordinating Management Courses in different levels. She is Bahraini national, is a well-known author in a number of social science areas. Her area of expertise is sexism and gender discrimination in the Arab world. As one of a select group of women in this region, she has in the last 13 years undertaken empirical researched specifically in women’s discrimination and its effect on diversity of management personnel in the workplace.