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Gender Quotas on Corporate Boards: Similarities and Differences in Quota Scenarios [PDF]
European Management Review, 2020 In this article, the use of gender quotas to strengthen gender equality on corporate boards is explored. Examining national practices in ten European countries we provide an overview, categorizing the design of various corporate board quotas (CBQs) and the contexts in which they are embedded.
Mensi-Klarbach, Heike +1 more
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The Irish legislative gender quota: The first election [PDF]
Administration, 2017 In 2012 legislative gender quotas were introduced as part of the Fine Gael/Labour coalition government’s political reform agenda. The legislation specifies that payments to political parties ‘shall be reduced by 50 per cent, unless at least 30 per cent ...
Brennan Mary, Buckley Fiona
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Gender Quotas and Women's Political Leadership [PDF]
American Political Science Review, 2014 Though more than 100 countries have adopted gender quotas, the effects of these reforms on women's political leadership are largely unknown. We exploit a natural experiment—a 50–50 quota imposed by the national board of the Swedish Social Democratic Party on 290 municipal branches—to examine quotas’ influence on women's selection to, and survival in ...
Z. O’Brien, Diana, Rickne, Johanna
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Gender quotas on boards of directors [PDF]
IZA World of Labor, 2014 Arguments for increasing gender diversity on boards of directors range from ensuring equal opportunity to improving firm performance, but the empirical results are mixed and often negative. Current research does not justify gender quotas on grounds of economic efficiency.
Smith, Nina
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Incumbents' Interests, Voters' Bias and Gender Quotas [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2006 The adoption of gender quotas inpart y lists has beena voluntary decision by many parties in many countries, and is now a subject of discussioninman y others. The Parity Low passed inF rance in 2001 is particularly interesting because for the first time the quota was set at 50 percent, and the deputies passing the reform are elected in single member ...
FRECHETTE, Guillaume R. +2 more
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Honour and Shame in Women’s Sports
Studies in Arts and Humanities, 2021 This piece, first delivered as a keynote address, examines the role of honour and shame in understanding the many stories of women's involvement in sport in Ireland from the eighteenth century onwards, and especially in the modern era.
Katie Liston
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How Do Electoral Gender Quotas Affect Policy
, 2021 Electoral gender quotas now exist in a majority of national legislatures worldwide. In general, quotas are followed by greater legislative attention to the interests and priorities of women as a gr...
Amanda Clayton
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Do political quotas work? Gender quotas and women’s political participation in Nepal
European Journal of Politics and Gender, 2023 This article presents an investigation into the lives and lived experiences of women who joined politics through quotas. In particular, it explores the transformative potential of a quota policy through the ‘subject position’ of women politicians in ...
P. Yadav
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Does Gender Based Representation Matters in Fostering Political Inclusion of Women in Local Governments? A Case of India [PDF]
SocioEconomic Challenges, 2023 How does the legally established gender quota in local self-government bodies affect the level of representation of women in power? How does the representation of women in power increase effective political participation? Previous studies were devoted to
Bishnu Prasad Mohapatra +2 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 In this study, we analyze the free verbal associations to the stimuli women quotas and men quotas of 327 medical students. Women and men quotas are characterized by the same modus operandi (i.e., preferential treatment based on sex/gender).
Miriam K. Zehnter, Erich Kirchler
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