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 …

We study the effect on coordination in a minimum-effort game of a leader's gender depending on whether the leader is … benefits of being elected are enjoyed solely by male leaders. However, this gender difference disappears with repeated …

In virtually all industrialized countries, women are underrepresented in entrepreneurship, and the gender gap exhibits … male and female peer groups explain approximately half of the gender gap in early career entrepreneurship. …

executive employment, which allows for a full characterization of the gender composition of executive management. We establish …"Glass ceilings" and "sticky floors" are typical explanations for the low representation of women in top executive … positions, but a focus on gender differences in promotions provides only a partial explanation. We consider the life-cycle of …

survey data used contain detailed information about the managers as well as their employers. We find significant gender … differences between managers with regard to gender stereotyping attitudes. Male managers on average tend to have stronger gender … weaker beliefs in their masculine skills, whereas the opposite is observed for male managers. Gender stereotypes and self …

of middle managers from the German chemical sector, we are able to differentiate between different reasons for …

This study examines gender differences in risk-taking behavior among managers in a female-dominated industry. Using …-taking than female coaches on average. We also find a U-shaped age effect that is independent of gender, meaning that young and … previous studies on gender differences in risk preferences, and thereby emphasize the importance of considering the industrial …

We analyze the effect of the coach's gender on risk-taking in women sports teams using data taken from National … Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) basketball games. We find that the coach's gender has a sizable and significant effect on …

those expected from gender stereotypes. Unlike previous research on the topic, always based on opinions about individual … managers, this investigation uses firm-level evidence from the British 1998 Workplace Employment Relationship Survey (WERS 98 … female managers into specific responsibilities, are avoided in the research presented here. The results show that workplaces …

We study the gender pay gap in the labor market for CEOs by analysing 1,174 outsider CEO successions over the past … marked gender differences in the pay structure: namely, women CEOs receive a lower proportion of fixed to total compensation …. The model also suggests that a more balanced gender composition in companies' boards can help women close the gap in pay …