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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 …
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The goal of this study is to examine whether women in the highest levels of management ranks of firms help reduce … barriers to advancement in the workplace faced by women. 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 …
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migrant women: gender and migrant condition. Our findings suggest that migrant women do face this double disadvantage. In both …
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A vast labor literature has found evidence of a glass ceiling, whereby women are under-represented among senior … participants about the ability of the men and women in senior management. As such, financial data hold the promise of potentially …
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Drawing on identity and social comparison theories, we propose and test a model of motivation to lead based on two types of self-to-role comparisons (i.e., self-comparisons with specific leaders and with more abstract representations of the leadership role). We propose that these comparisons...
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Social Darwinism suggests that in crisis situations leaders have to be replaced by better fitting leaders. An opposing school argues that leaders, based on their personality, are successful in all situations and therefore can master all situations including a crisis. A third view concludes that...
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We explore the antecedents and consequences of women leaders' identity interference related to the perceived conflict … between their roles as both women and leaders. Drawing on identity development and organizational demography research, we … propose that leadership experience reduces women leaders' identity interference, whereas women's numerical underrepresentation …
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Der Frauenanteil an Aufsichtsratsposten ist bei den großen Banken und Sparkassen sowie bei Versicherungsgesellschaften in Deutschland gering. Im Bankgewerbe beträgt er 15 % und bei Versicherungen 11 %. Dass dennoch in den meisten Aufsichts- oder Verwaltungsräten Frauen vertreten sind, geht...
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Frauen sind in den Spitzengremien der großen Unternehmen nach wie vor massiv unterrepräsentiert. Immer noch sind die Vorstände nahezu eine reine Männerdomäne: Im Untersuchungszeitraum 2008/2009 waren in den 200 größten Unternehmen außerhalb des Finanzsektors (Top 200) nur 2,5 Prozent...
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