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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 Boards and Firm Financial Performance: A Meta-Analysis
Corinne Post,Kris Byron +1 more
TL;DR: This paper found that female board representation is positively related to accounting returns and that this relationship is more positive in countries with stronger shareholder protections, perhaps because shareholders motivate boards to use the different knowledge, experience, and values that each member brings.
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Demographic Diversity in the Boardroom: Mediators of the Board Diversity–Firm Performance Relationship
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Does female representation in top management improve firm performance? A panel data investigation
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