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Women on high-level boards of banks and insurance companies : growth coming to a standstill on supervisory boards

Holst, Elke; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 9 (2019) 3, pp. 33-45

60 largest insurance companies, the proportion increased by a good percentage point to almost ten percent. While growth …

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Despite rising shares of women on executive and supervisory boards, gender parity remains a far-off goal

Sondergeld, Virginia; Wrohlich, Katharina; Kirsch, Anja - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 15 (2025) 3/4, pp. 17-28

In 2024, the share of women on the top decision-making boards of the largest companies in Germany increased. A solid 19 percent of all executive board members at the 200 largest companies are now women, and almost 26 percent of members at the 40 largest listed companies are women. The financial...

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Has the push for equal gender representation changed the role of women on German supervisory boards?

Bozhinov, Viktor; Koch, Christopher; Schank, Thorsten - 2017

In Germany, an intensive public debate about increasing female participation in leadership positions started in 2009 and proceeded until the beginning of 2015, when the German parliament enacted a board gender quota. In that period, the share of women on supervisory boards for 111 German...

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Gender diversity in corporate boards : evidence from quota-implied discontinuities

Kuzʹmina, Olʹga; Melentʹeva, Valentina - 2021 - This version: January 2021

Using data across European corporate boards, we investigate the effects of quota-induced female representation on firm value and operations, under minimal identification assumptions. We consider sharp increases in the share of women on boards that arise due to rounding whenever percentage-based...

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Financial sector : proportion of women in top decision-making bodies is increasing more slowly than at the beginning of the decade : equal gender representation is still a long way off

Holst, Elke; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 8 (2018) 3, pp. 32-45

largest insurance companies: on both executive and supervisory boards, the proportion of women has sunk to almost nine and 22 … decision-making bodies of banks and insurance companies. A phase of stagnation from 2006 to 2010 was followed by a period of … development over the past 11 years will continue linearly because most banks or insurance companies do not continue to increase …

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Determinants of women empowerment : case of refugee women living in Nairobi Kenya

Kaaria, Judy; Murithi, Immaculate Kathomi - In: Economies : open access journal 13 (2025) 2, pp. 1-19

This study investigates the determinants of women empowerment among refugee women living in Nairobi, Kenya. First, the study constructs an index to examine empowerment drivers using data from the Refugee and Host Household Survey (RHHS) 2021. A fractional logit regression model was employed in...

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Getting Women on Board : Some Reflections on Research on Board Gender Diversity

Hardies, Kris - 2020

Al-Shaer and Harakeh (2020) and Lopatta et al. (2020) study different aspects of the relationship between board gender diversity and corporate outcomes, respectively executive compensation and non-ﬁnancial performance. In this discussion, we oﬀer a broad overview of the main results of both...

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Women in Financial Services : Exploring Progress towards Gender Equality

Birindelli, Giuliana; Iannuzzi, Antonia Patrizia - 2022

the insurance industry: Progress made and next steps -- 7. Women in the asset management sector -- 8. How central are … women in Central Banks? -- 9. Gender diversity in banks and insurance companies: The state of art -- 10. A case of temporary … governance bodies of banks and insurance companies, the gender pay gap and the gender balance in Central Banks. The topics are …

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Women representation in boardrooms : do they just arrive? : an Indian experience

Mehrotra, Shweta; Amitabh, Aanchal - In: Research bulletin / The Institute of Cost Accountants … 41 (2015) 3, pp. 198-214

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Individualization and marketization of responsibility for gender equality : the case of female managers in China

Tatli, Ahu; Ozturk, Mustafa Bilgehan; Woo, Hong Seng - In: Human resource management 56 (2017) 3, pp. 407-430

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