The goal of this study is to examine whether women in the highest levels of firms' management ranks help reduce … barriers to women's advancement in the workplace. Using a panel of over 20,000 private-sector firms across all industries and … states during 1990-2003 from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, we explore the influence of women in top …

Based on a sample of 467 asset managers from four countries we robustly find that women manage smaller funds than men …

when we control for municipality fixed effects as well as non-random sorting of women into municipalities using regression … women. The evidence is suggestive that female mayors are less able at fostering cooperation among men, or alternatively …, that men are more reluctant to be headed by women. Other interpretations receive less support in the data. Our results may …

This paper analyzes the determinants of women on the boards of directors based on a panel sample of all Danish … companies in the private sector with more than 50 employees. The share of women on the boards of directors was 12 percent in … woman for the board of directors. Finally, the pipeline hypothesis is partly confirmed. The share of women among the group …

chairman and share of women in the boardroom) and firm's risk attitudes measured as variability in four firm outcome variables … finding might be consistent with the theoretical assumption according to which women typically present a substantially higher …

effects are particularly pronounced when firms appoint several women directors, which is consistent with the critical mass … Russian data lend some support to "the business case" for more women on corporate boards. …

share of women on supervisory boards for 111 German publicly listed and fully codetermined companies (i.e. those which are … interpret this as an overall indication that women are not only underrepresented in German supervisory boards, they are even … more underrepresented in important board positions. Indeed, women are less likely to become a chairman and are less often …

In most OECD countries, only very few women succeed in reaching top executive positions. In this paper, the probability … disappearance of statistical discrimination against women who succeed getting into career track positions. The results reflect that …

In most OECD countries, only very few women succeed in reaching top executive positions. In this paper, the probability … disappearance of statistical discrimination against women who succeed getting into career track positions. The results reflect that …

This paper analyzes the determinants of women on the boards of directors based on a panel sample of all Danish … companies in the private sector with more than 50 employees. The share of women on the boards of directors was 12 percent in … woman for the board of directors. Finally, the pipeline hypothesis is partly confirmed. The share of women among the group …