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The gender of representation: On democracy, equality, and parity [PDF]
, 2008 The debate regarding the statutory introduction of gender parity in electoral lists has been led, on the one hand, by those who envisage parity as a way to attain substantive equality between the genders.
Rodíguez Ruíz, Blanca +1 more
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Does Board Gender Diversity Influence Financial Performance? Evidence from Spain [PDF]
, 2017 In recent years, several countries have enacted guidelines and/or mandatory laws to increase the presence of women on the boards of companies. Through these regulatory interventions, the aim is to eradicate the social and labor grievances that women have
Fuentes Ruiz, Pilar de +2 more
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite rapid growth in gender lens investing (GLI), substantial variation remains in how gender lens equity funds (GLEFs) integrate gender equality criteria into investment strategies. We map a universe of 43 GLEFs and develop a framework capturing gender equality screening breadth and accountability depth (fund‐level disclosure and ...
Freyja Vilborg Thorarinsdottir +3 more
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Los partidos colombianos y la representación de las mujeres (1990-2006).
Colombia Internacional, 2010 Do parties, which proclaim a gender equity commitment, translate such commitment by including quotas for women in their electoral lists and directorate? Do they have financial funds and political training policies expressly directed towards women? As the
María Emma Wills Obregón. +1 more
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Deliberative democracy and the politics of redistribution: the case of the Indian Panchayats [PDF]
, 2007 By examining evidence from India, where quotas for women in local government were introduced in 1993, this article argues that institutional reform can disturb hegemonic discourses sufficiently to open a window of opportunity where deliberative ...
Buch +24 more
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The Relationship Between Board Diversity and Corporate Environmental Performance: A Meta‐Analysis
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The association between corporate governance mechanisms and corporate environmental performance has gained increasing academic engagement; however, existing empirical studies provide inconsistent results. This study aims at empirically summarizing the results of previous research on the relationship between different characteristics of board ...
My Hanh Doan +3 more
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The impact of board gender quotas on analyst recommendations: A difference-in-differences analysis
Revista de Contabilidad: Spanish Accounting ReviewNorway provides the case study for examining the impact of board gender quotas on firm performance. The debate that ultimately led to the introduction of the quota was heated and polarised, with opponents of the quota arguing that the inability of the ...
Josep Garcia-Blandon +2 more
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Iceland is the best, but still not equal
Søkelys på Arbeidslivet, 2018 While Iceland ranks high internationally on gender equality, it does not follow that equality has been reached. For gender equality, wages as well as possibilities for participating in the labor market should be equal, and men and women should ...
Katrin Olafsdottir
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Can political reservations affect political equilibria in the long-term? Evidence from local elections in rural India [PDF]
While many studies explored impacts of political quotas for females, often with ambiguous results, underlying mechanisms and long-term effects have received relatively little attention.
Deininger, Klaus +2 more
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While corporate social responsibility (CSR) scholarship assumes that organizational consistency signals effectiveness, there remains a knowledge gap about how MNCs navigate competing institutional logics between headquarters and subsidiaries. This study investigates how managerial sensemaking mediates the effects of institutional pressures on ...
Charles Antony Diab, Wendy Stubbs
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