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Where Women Make the Difference. The Effects of Corporate Board Gender Quotas on Firms' Performance across Europe
Comi, Simona - 2017
We study the effect of corporate board gender quotas on firm performance in Belgium, France, Italy and Spain. The empirical analysis is based on accounting panel data from Bureau Van Dijk's Amadeus. Our identification strategy relies on both double and triple difference estimators with ex-ante...
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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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At the Table But Can’t Break Through the Glass Ceiling : Board Leadership Positions Elude Diverse Directors
Field, Laura Casares - 2019
We explore the labor market effects of gender and race by examining board leadership appointments. Prior studies are often limited by observing only hired candidates, whereas the boardroom provides a controlled setting where both hired and unhired candidates are observable. Although diverse...
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Private firm performance : do women directors matter?
Sattar, Mahnoor; Biswas, Pallab Kumar; Roberts, Helen - In: Meditari accountancy research 31 (2023) 3, pp. 602-634
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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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Busy Female Directors
Tonetto, Annalisa - 2022
decrease of this negative effect, as there will be more women in the corporate directors market in the next years. More …
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Women in the boardroom: a bottom-up approach to the tricle-down effect
Périlleux, Anaïs; Szafarz, Ariane - 2021
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Women in the boardroom : a bottom-up approach to the trickle-down effect
Périlleux, Anaïs; Szafarz, Ariane - 2021
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The gender quota and female leadership : effects of the Norwegian gender quota on board chairs and CEOs
Wang, Mingzhu; Kelan, Elisabeth - In: Journal of business ethics : JOBE 117 (2013) 3, pp. 449-466
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Corporate reporting provides insight into companies' commitment to gender equality
Kirsch, Anja; Sondergeld, Virginia; Thompson, Philipp … - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 13 (2023) 3/4, pp. 32-39
, legislators have increasingly required information on non-financial aspects, such as the shares of women in leadership positions …. Using a quantitative text analysis of annual reports, this second report in the 2023 DIW Berlin Women Executives Barometer …. Reporting about women and leadership positions increased overall between 2009 and 2020 in line with the requirements. However …
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