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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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Women on corporate boards around the world: Triggers and barriers
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that board directorship is an agentic role and more suitable for men and employ a robust statistical technique in two-stage least squares (2SLS) to find that the representation of women in other key national institutions, such as in politics, positively affects the appointment of female directors on boards.
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Women on board: evidence from a masculine industry
Claudia Arena,Alessandro Cirillo,Donata Mussolino,Ingrid Pulcinelli,Sara Saggese,Fabrizia Sarto +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the impact of board gender diversity on firm performance, by taking into account the "critical mass" of women directors and their educational level, was investigated. And the results showed that the educational level of women negatively affects firm performance as it might impact the dynamics within the boardroom.