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Women's leadership and corporate performance

Qian, Meijun - 2016

This paper examines the gender diversity in corporate boardrooms in Asia and the Pacific and how the diversity affects corporate performance. We find that boardroom gender diversity is low in Asia with 7.5% female representation on average in 2012, but showing a 1.8% improvement in 2013. The...

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Female business leaders, business and cultural environment, and productivity around the world

Fang, Sheng; Goh, Chorching; Roberts, Mark; Xu, Lixin Colin - 2020

Studies of female business leaders and economic performance are rarely conducted with worldwide observational data, and with considerations on the underlying cultural, institutional, and business environment. This paper uses worldwide, firm-level data from more than 100 countries to study how...

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Do workers discriminate against female bosses?

Abel, Martin - 2019

I hire 2,700 workers for a transcription job, randomly assigning the gender of their (fictitious) manager and provision of performance feedback. While praise from a manager has no effect, criticism negatively impacts workers' job satisfaction and perception of the task's importance. When female...

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Does exposure to more women in male-dominated fields render female students more career-oriented?

Borges, Bruna Pugialli; Estevan, Fernanda - 2021

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Women have to enter the leadership race to win : using random selection to increase the supply of women into senior positions

Goodall, Amanda H.; Osterloh, Margit - 2015

The supply of women into senior management has changed little despite well-intentioned efforts. We argue that the … biggest effect is from supply-side factors that inhibit females' decision to enter competitions: Women are under …-confident about winning, men are over-confident; women are more risk averse than men in some settings; and, most importantly, women …

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Women, leadership and violent extremism : a potential security risk?

Wertz, Aurélie; Mbuvi, Dorcas - 2020

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Women at the top in developing countries : evidence from firm-level data

Sekkat, Khalid; Szafarz, Ariane; Tojerow, Ilan - 2015

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 female dominant shareholder has a significantly higher...

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Women leaders and social performance : evidence from financial cooperatives in Senegal

Périlleux, Anaïs; Szafarz, Ariane - 2015

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Claiming authority : how women explain their ascent to top business leadership positions

Bowles, Hannah Riley - 2012

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Women leaders and social performance : evidence from financial cooperatives in Senegal

Périlleux, Anaïs; Szafarz, Ariane - 2014

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