Affirmative action arose from the fight for the civic rights in the 1960s.. However the ethnic quota in the American higher education were questioned in 1978 (Bakke) by a decision of the Supreme Court which incited universities to promote diversity, but w

The under-representation of female directors in the boardroom where corporate strategic decisions are made has recently become not only an ethical business case but also a public pressure to improve this gender imbalance. While there is some practical evidence to suggest that gender-diverse...

Our research aims at exploring individual’s characteristics of women on Boards in the French context. In the first part of our paper, we discuss the different theoretical frameworks which supported the business case of gender diversity on Boards of Directors and expose our hypothesis regarding...