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Empowering Women: The Role of Emancipative Forces in Board Gender Diversity
Steven A. Brieger,Steven A. Brieger,Claude Francoeur,Christian Welzel,Christian Welzel,Walid Ben-Amar +5 more
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In this paper, the authors investigate the effect of country-level emancipative forces on corporate gender diversity around the world and develop an emancipatory framework of board gender diversity that explains how action resources, emancipation values and civic entitlements enable, motivate and encourage women to take leadership roles on corporate boards.Abstract:
This study investigates the effect of country-level emancipative forces on corporate gender diversity around the world. Based on Welzel’s (Freedom rising: human empowerment and the quest for emancipation. Cambridge University Press, New York, 2013) theory of emancipation, we develop an emancipatory framework of board gender diversity that explains how action resources, emancipative values and civic entitlements enable, motivate and encourage women to take leadership roles on corporate boards. Using a sample of 6390 firms operating in 30 countries around the world, our results show positive single and combined effects of the framework components on board gender diversity. Our research adds to the existing literature in a twofold manner. First, our integrated framework offers a more encompassing, complete and theoretically richer picture of the key drivers of board gender diversity. Second, by testing the framework empirically, we extend the evidence on national drivers of board gender diversity.read more
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Does having women managers lead to increased gender equality practices in corporate social responsibility
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TL;DR: In this paper, the presence of women on corporate boards, in top and middle management and as heads of CSR departments, influences gender equality practices in the field of corporate social responsibility (CSR).
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Females and Precarious Board Positions: Further Evidence of the Glass Cliff
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors directly tested the relationship between a precarious situation and changes in board gender diversity and found that when the loss is big, there is a difference in the increase in gender diversity versus both the control and small loss subsamples.
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