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Binding quotas can help achieve gender equality in top decision-making bodies

Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 9 (2019) 16/18, pp. 154-155

Gender equality is a deciding factor for economic growth in the European Union. Proportion of women on executive committees of publicly traded companies is an important component of gender equality policies. Proportion of women on executive committees is significantly higher in member states...

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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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014238549

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014238741

Gender Diversity, Gender 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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014241995

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 diversity in firms

Azmat, Ghazala; Boring, Anne - 2020

This paper explores the recent efforts by the corporate world and public policy to increase the number of women in leadership positions in the workplace. We review and empirically evaluate the "business case" for gender equality, showing some evidence in favour of it. Despite the evidence and...

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Gender diversity in corporate boards : evidence from quota-implied discontinuities

Kuzʹmina, Olʹga; Melentʹeva, Valentina - 2021 - This version: January 2021

Using data across European corporate boards, we investigate the effects of quota-induced female representation on firm value and operations, under minimal identification assumptions. We consider sharp increases in the share of women on boards that arise due to rounding whenever percentage-based...

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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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013445521

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013448441

Financial sector : proportion of women in top decision-making bodies is increasing more slowly than at the beginning of the decade : equal gender representation is still a long way off

Holst, Elke; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 8 (2018) 3, pp. 32-45

largest insurance companies: on both executive and supervisory boards, the proportion of women has sunk to almost nine and 22 … decision-making bodies of banks and insurance companies. A phase of stagnation from 2006 to 2010 was followed by a period of … development over the past 11 years will continue linearly because most banks or insurance companies do not continue to increase …

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