gathering information and increasing our knowledge on gender equality at organizational level. Design …/methodology/approach – Based on Swedish gender policy and information available in public registers, six variables were chosen. For each variable …, a gender gap was calculated as the ratio between the sexes, with the larger figure always treated as numerator. The …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the ways in which gender is “done” in executive search. The authors … top management is reinforced. Findings – The ways in which gender is “done” and women are excluded from top management are … ways in which gender plays a role in professional services in general and in practices of executive search in particular …

diversity in thinking about gender in management and welcomes papers from all academic disciplines which can contribute to …

resource (HR) directors vary cross‐nationally and how gender egalitarian cultural values affect role differences between female … based on the 2004 Cranet survey. Findings – Consistent with the hypotheses, gender egalitarian values reduce sex … directors. The effects of gender egalitarian values have greater impact on reducing vertical differences than horizontal …

advantage in evaluations of transformational leaders, especially when women are the evaluators. Extension of theories of gender …

carried out to explore overall data for board membership related to gender, resulting in a new typology to describe firms with …/implications – The study suggests that at the rate of progress achieved over the 2003‐2005 period, it will be the year 2225 before gender … balance in company directorships is achieved in the UK. The study was based on Companies House data, where gender is a self …