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Has the push for equal gender representation changed the role of women on German supervisory boards?
Bozhinov, Viktor; Koch, Christopher; Schank, Thorsten - 2017
In Germany, an intensive public debate about increasing female participation in leadership positions started in 2009 and proceeded until the beginning of 2015, when the German parliament enacted a board gender quota. In that period, the share of women on supervisory boards for 111 German...
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Gender stereotyping and self-stereotyping attitudes : a large field study of managers
Eriksson, Tor; Smith, Nina; Smith, Valdemar - 2017
labor market, such as gender stereotypes and gender identity. This paper examines gender stereotypes and self … stereotypes do not differ from their male peers' and have significantly more pronounced masculine stereotypes than female managers … weaker beliefs in their masculine skills, whereas the opposite is observed for male managers. Gender stereotypes and self-stereotypes …
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Women at the top in developing countries : evidence from firm-level data
Sekkat, Khalid; Szafarz, Ariane; Tojerow, Ilan - 2015
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 female dominant shareholder has a significantly higher...
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The gender composition of corporate boards and firm performance : evidence from Russia
Garanina, Tatiana; Muravyev, Alexander - 2019
This paper studies economic effects of the gender composition of corporate boards, employing a new and unique longitudinal dataset of virtually all Russian companies whose shares were traded on the national stock market between 1998 and 2014. Using multiple identification approaches, alternative...
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All on board? : new evidence on board gender diversity from a large panel of firms
Tyrowicz, Joanna; Terjesen, Siri; Mazurek, Jakub - 2020
Using a unique database of over 20 million firms over two decades, we examine the industry sector and national institution drivers of the prevalence of women directors on supervisory and management boards in both public and private firms across 41 advanced and emerging European economies. We...
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Gender diversity, labour in the boardroom and gender quotas
Kunze, Astrid; Scharfenkamp, Katrin - 2022
This study investigates boards of (non-executive) directors and whether employee representation has a positive effect on gender diversity on boards. We exploit rich, newly assembled board-director matched panel data for Norway and Germany, which contain unique information on whether a director...
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The gender pay gap in the CEOs' labor market
Tani, Massimiliano; Valentine, Andrew; Sharpe, Kieran - 2022
We study the gender pay gap in the labor market for CEOs by analysing 1,174 outsider CEO successions over the past three decades across 18 countries. We find that male and female CEOs receive a similar compensation overall but this masks marked gender differences in the pay structure: namely,...
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Work-life balance practices, performance-related pay, and gender equality in the workplace : evidence from Japan
Kato, Takao; Kodama, Naomi - 2015
This paper uses unique firm-level panel data from Japan and provides new evidence on the possible impact on gender equality in the workplace of human resources management (HRM) practices. Specifically we consider a number of work-life balance (WLB) practices that are developed in part to enhance...
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Women in the workplace and management practices : theory and evidence
Kato, Takao; Kodama, Naomi - 2017
We review recent studies on management practices and their consequences for women in the workplace. First, the High Performance Work System (HPWS) is associated with greater gender diversity in the workplace while there is little evidence that the HPWS reduces the gender pay gap. Second,...
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Evidence for a two-women quota in university departments across disciplines
Janys, Lena - 2020
Increasing diversity in higher tiers of occupations is a strongly debated topic and subject to legislation and reform in professional organizations in many countries. I use a novel method for detecting implicit quotas in workplaces, college admissions or birth patterns, relying exclusively on...
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