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In 2004, Bevelander was appointed
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there, as she established the first all-women leadership elective as part of RSM’s MBA programmes in 2011. She founded ECWO in 2014 as a centre of teaching, research and advocacy, focusing on redressing the gender imbalance in organisations and
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