Jill Rubery. She is smiling, wearing light blue glasses and has short grey hair.

Jill Rubery

Professor of comparative employment systems

Jill Rubery is a professor of comparative employment systems, and executive director of the Work and Equalities Institute at Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester.

She is an international expert on gender and employment and co-ordinated the European Commission’s expert group on gender and employment from 1991 to 2007 and has consulted for the EU, the ILO and the EHRC on gender issues including issues of employment, pay, working time and welfare state support. Her new edited book (forthcoming 2026), Women in Turbulent Times, follows on from previous works on Women and Recession and Women and Austerity.