This paper uses worldwide firm-level data to scrutinize the governance factors that favor gender diversity in … leadership positions. Our results reveal that the gender of the dominant shareholder is key. The chief executive of firms with a …

The paper analyzes the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions based on German panel data and using fixed … more established "old-boy networks" of large firms. -- Gender pay gap ; managerial positions ; occupational sex segregation …

The study analyses the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions in Germany based on data from the German … Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for the years 2001-2008. It focuses in particular on gender segregation in the labor … inequality on earnings levels and gender wage differentials in management positions. Our paper is, to our knowledge, the first in …