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Gender diversity, Labour in the Boardroom, and Gender Quotas
Academy of Management Proceedings, 2022 This study investigates boards of (non-executive) directors and whether employee representation has a positive effect on gender diversity on boards. We exploit rich, newly assembled board–director matched panel data for Norway and Germany, which contain unique information on whether a director represents shareholders or employees during the period ...
Kunze, Ariane, Scharfenkamp, Katrin
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Socially gainful gender quotas [PDF]
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2014 We study the impact of gender quotas on the acquisition of human capital. We assume that individuals’ formation of human capital is influenced by the prospect of landing high-pay top positions, and that these positions are regulated by gender-specific quotas.
Stark, Oded, Hyll, Walter
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Gender quotas and the quality of politicians [PDF]
Journal of Public Economics, 2012 We analyze the effects of the introduction of gender quotas in candidate lists on the quality of elected politicians, as measured by the average number of years of education. We consider an Italian law which introduced gender quotas in local elections in 1993, and was abolished in 1995.
Baltrunaite, Audinga +3 more
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Gender Quotas for Legislatures and Corporate Boards. [PDF]
Annu Rev Sociol, 2017 The global proliferation of quotas for women over the past 30 years is both remarkable and consequential. Targeting decision-making positions historically resistant to women's equal inclusion, the adoption of electoral and corporate board quotas has at times been controversial. After adoption, quotas have influenced women's numbers, the performance and
Hughes MM, Paxton P, Krook ML.
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Gender quotas in Indonesia: Re-examining the role of international NGOs
Ex Aequo: Revista da Associação Portuguesa de Estudos sobre as Mulheres, 2019 Women’s political representation in Indonesia has been rather limited and has fluctuated since independence in 1945. In a hope to improve this situation, a legislated gender quota of 30 percent for candidates in Indonesia was first implemented in the ...
Ella Syafputri Prihatini +1 more
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Desafíos, 2019 Gendered quotas have been one of the preferred instruments for promoting women’s participation and empowerment in public decision-making positions. This study analyzes Colombia’s constitutional validation of gender quotas.
Felipe Jaramillo Ruiz
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Quotas and Gender Competence: Independent or Complementary Approaches to Gender Equality?
Frontiers in Sociology, 2021 Austrian gender equality policy in higher education is characterized by the successful implementation of a comprehensive set of gender equality policies and persistent gender imbalances.
Angela Wroblewski
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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.
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Do Gender Quotas Influence Women's Representation and Policies? [PDF]
The European Journal of Comparative Economics, 2010 This paper investigates the effect of applying gender quotas on policy decisions. I first examine the effect of gender quotas on the representation of female legislators, study the correlation between gender quotas and different types of government ...
Li-Ju Chen
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Affirmative action programs and network benefits in the number of board positions.
PLoS ONE, 2020 Whereas governments are increasingly considering affirmative action programs to increase corporate board diversity, the effect of such programs can be superficial as they do not address the underlying problem, which is women's access to and inclusion in ...
Katarzyna Burzynska, Gabriela Contreras
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