Abstract

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<jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Purpose</jats:title>
<jats:p>The purpose of this paper is to highlight key issues for women managers, leaders and precarious academic women during COVID-19 in organisations and in academy.</jats:p>
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<jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Design/methodology/approach</jats:title>
<jats:p>This paper shares the authors’ personal experiences during COVID-19 in the UK as a woman Professor and Director of a Business School and a woman Research Associate and link these with existing scholarship to reflect on areas for continued research and action.</jats:p>
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<jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Findings</jats:title>
<jats:p>This paper underlines how COVID-19 destabilises the progress made towards gender equality.</jats:p>
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<jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Practical implications</jats:title>
<jats:p>This paper outlines future avenues for research and practice as a result of experiences of COVID-19.</jats:p>
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<jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Originality/value</jats:title>
<jats:p>This paper looks at the gendered implications of COVID-19 for women across organisational hierarchies and highlights commonalities in their experiences and devastating effects of the pandemic.</jats:p>
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