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Purpose The European Union (EU) has recently adopted gender quotas for corporate boards (CBQ), anticipating ripple … effect from 2008. The policy requires company boards to be composed of 40% of each gender. Drawing on original data mapping … gender composition of executive management almost 15 years after the full implementation. The data include both companies …
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Purpose This paper aims to analyse the gender wage gap (GWG) in the board of directors at the executive-director level …
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diversity in thinking about gender in management and welcomes papers from all academic disciplines which can contribute to …
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Purpose – Retailing as a sector employs many women and serves a female‐dominated customer base. It also employs proportionately more women in management positions than in other occupational sectors. However, at senior levels, the proportion of women to men diminishes. This paper aims to...
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Purpose – The study sets out to examine how male and female managers in general and male and female municipal executives in particular are evaluated by the members of the organisation. Design/methodology/approach – The study presented used the methodology of focus group discussion. Findings...
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resource (HR) directors vary cross‐nationally and how gender egalitarian cultural values affect role differences between female … based on the 2004 Cranet survey. Findings – Consistent with the hypotheses, gender egalitarian values reduce sex … directors. The effects of gender egalitarian values have greater impact on reducing vertical differences than horizontal …
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advantage in evaluations of transformational leaders, especially when women are the evaluators. Extension of theories of gender …
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carried out to explore overall data for board membership related to gender, resulting in a new typology to describe firms with …/implications – The study suggests that at the rate of progress achieved over the 2003‐2005 period, it will be the year 2225 before gender … balance in company directorships is achieved in the UK. The study was based on Companies House data, where gender is a self …
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Purpose – This paper has two‐fold objectives: first, it presents female managers' experience with family‐work dilemma. Second, it examines the priorities married female managers assign to the commitments of their dual roles and the support they received from their organizations....
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Purpose – While the gender pay gap has received considerable attention, the evidence from developing countries remains … scant. The purpose of this paper is to examine the salience of a gender pay gap in a developing country context, through an … empirical study of differentials in wages/salaries across gender in the banking, nursing and higher education sectors in Lebanon …
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