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 probability of being a woman than in other firms. The effect is even …