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Aging the gap : the compensation among men and women executives

Elvira, Marta M.; Quintana García, Cristina; Villamor, … - 2025

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Gender diversity leadership and ESG performance : the influence of women on boards and in management

Sandretto, Davide; Rizzi, Alessandro; Esposito, Gabriella - 2025

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Women in, and beyond, business schools

2026 - First edition.

This important book in the EFMD series shines a light on women (and sometimes the absence of them) within business schools, as well as their contributions and impact across multiple spheres within and beyond their schools. Despite the clear rationale for promoting sustainable gender equity, the...

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Gendered financial literacy and digital marketing adoption : insights from female entrepreneurs in an emerging economy

Nuraisyiah; Azis, Muhammad; Hasan, Muhammad - 2026

In developing economies, women entrepreneurs play a vital role in advancing inclusive growth, yet their financial and digital capabilities often remain constrained by gendered barriers. This study investigates how financial literacy evolves into a gender-sensitive capability that drives digital...

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Women on the executive and supervisory boards of large companies : the upward trend of recent years has largely stalled

Antezza, Arianna; Meiner, Alina; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2026

The proportion of women on the executive and supervisory boards of Germany's largest private companies has risen considerably since data collection for the DIW Women Executives Barometer began 20 years ago. While it was just over one percent on the executive boards of Germany's 200...

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Women director networks and corporate social responsibility of indian firms

Nambiar, Kavitha; Selarka, Ekta - 2026

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Identities of female entrepreneurs from different periods

Klanšek, Lučka; Antončič, Boštjan - 2026

This article explores how female entrepreneurs construct and negotiate entrepreneurial identities across socialist, transition, and post-socialist periods in Slovenia. Drawing on feminist, post-structuralist, and identity-theory perspectives, we ask what determines women's entrepreneurial...

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Configurational pathways to technology venture creation : how spousal endorsement and informal support enable Omani women's entrepreneurship

Yasin, Husam N.; Hammami, Samir; Samour, Ahmed; … - 2026

This study investigates the configurational pathways enabling women in Oman to translate entrepreneurial intentions into technology venture creation. By integrating institutional theory and resource‑based view, we develop a novel framework examining how formal institutional support (FIS),...

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Beliefs about gender inequalities, narratives and support for gender quotas

Di Corato, Luca; Esposito, Federica; Montinari, Natalia - 2026

Gender quotas remain controversial despite evidence of their effectiveness in reducing labor-market gender inequality. We study how informational narratives about quotas affect support, and how effects depend on pre-existing causal beliefs about inequality. In a pre-registered survey experiment...

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Female political leaders and public funding attraction : evidence from Italian municipalities

Picchio, Matteo; Santolini, Raffaella - 2026

We study the role of mayoral gender in attracting public funding in Italian municipalities. We exploit a novel administrative dataset containing detailed information on all projects aimed at the digitalisation of local public administrations and funded under Italy's National Recovery and...

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Female political leaders and public funding attraction : evidence from Italian municipalities

Picchio, Matteo; Santolini, Raffaella - 2026

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Female political leaders and public funding attraction : evidence from Italian municipalities

Picchio, Matteo; Santolini, Raffaella - 2026

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Legislative gender quotas, career pipelines, and the competence of female ministers

Lee, Dongil - 2026

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Closing the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship : Overcoming Challenges in Law and Practice for Female Entrepreneurs

Behr, Daniela M.; Xi, Yue - 2026

Despite significant strides toward gender equality, women around the world continue to encounter systemic obstacles that hinder their entrepreneurial success. This paper systematically reviews the literature on the barriers female entrepreneurs face and the solutions proposed to overcome these...

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Beyond backlash : how gender quotas empower women and shape workplace atitudes in Japanese hiring

Nihonsugi, Tsuyoshi; Kamijo, Yoshio; Taguchi, Satoshi; … - 2026

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Ripple effect of gig work : how hands-on experience and networks shape future female entrepreneurs

Alshebami, Ali Saleh; Fazal, Syed Ali; Amin, Mohammad Bin; … - 2026

The rapid growth of the gig economy is reshaping traditional employment structures, creating new pathways for entrepreneurial activities, especially for women. Female entrepreneurship has always been a trending issue worldwide, particularly in developing conservative societies where females face...

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Female promotions and the academic pipeline : evidence from a natural experiment

Bagues, Manuel F.; Makany, Milan; Vattuone, Giulia; … - 2026

We study how faculty promotion decisions shape women's careers and the academic pipeline, using data from 4,000 Spanish university departments across all disciplines. We identify exogenous variation in promotions using the random assignment of evaluators to promotion committees between 2002 and...

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Female promotions and the academic pipeline : evidence from a natural experiment

Bagues, Manuel F.; Makany, Milan; Vattuone, Giulia; … - 2026

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Entrepreneurial coaching and self-efficacy as catalysts for business growth among women entrepreneurs in Gauteng, South Africa

Molema, Mahalia Lerato; Ebewo, Patrick Ebong; Ndlovu, … - 2026

Entrepreneurship aims to contribute significantly to economic development, a trend that has been progressively growing over time. Nonetheless, female entrepreneurs continue to face substantial challenges, including limited access to financial resources and sociocultural barriers. The influence...

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Gender diversity improves performance but reinforces gendered roles

Shan, Xiaoyue - 2026

Does group gender diversity benefit individuals? I examine this question with a field experiment randomizing 3,060 students to small study groups at university entry. Assignment to mixed-gender rather than single-gender groups improves performance and well-being for both men and women:...

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Does board gender diversity improve other diversity issues? : the case of disability diversity compliance and washing

Ishida, Souhei; Kuroki, Makoto; Shuto, Akinobu - 2026

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Unlocking Women’s Entrepreneurship through Childcare Reform

Behr, Daniela Monika; Siegrist, Felicia Norina - 2026

This Brief explores how childcare responsibilities shape women’s entrepreneurial choices and business growth, drawing on data from the Women, Business and the Law project as well as complementary evidence from Bangladesh, Brazil, and Nigeria. Globally, women spend nearly three times as much...

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To Have It All? Career and Family of College-Educated Women in an Emerging Economy

Bimardhika, Elghafiky; Halim, Daniel - 2026

Can college-educated women in rapidly developing economies balance career and family, or does compressed economic growth polarize their choices? This paper investigates how Indonesian women navigate these dual objectives across birth cohorts from the 1950s to the 1990s. It utilizes 38 years of...

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Empowering women across generations : AI-enhanced learning for inclusive leadership development

Shouman, Lina; Vidal-Suñé, Antoni; Alarcón, Amado - 2026

Women are essential to the growth of any progressive society. Equal access to employment is necessary for both women's empowerment and global economic growth. However, discrimination against women persists at all career levels, making it challenging for them to overcome barriers to leadership...

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Female entrepreneurship and proximity to support infrastructure in Germany : a geospatial analysis

Tieze, Josephin; Tiberius, Victor - 2026

The paper aims to provide spatial evidence on where to prioritize place-based support for women's entrepreneurship by linking the geography of female founders to the proximity of formal support infrastructure in Germany. To pursue this objective, we assemble nationwide venture microdata covering...

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Negotiating multiple identities : the intersection of race and gender in the lived experiences of South African female engineers

Reuben, Shanya; Bobat, Shaida; Niekerk, Tarryn van - 2026

Engineering remains a highly gendered and racialised profession in South Africa, shaped by enduring historical inequalities and the imprint of institutionalised exclusion that structures women's experiences of belonging and professional legitimacy. While women's underrepresentation in STEM is...

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(Dis)empowered by context : female entrepreneurs, institutions, and firm performance

Berkel, Hanna; Trifkovic, Neda - 2026

Research on gender gaps in firm performance often attributes lower productivity among womenled enterprises to differential access to institutions. This paper examines how interactions with formal and informal institutions relate to enterprise performance in Mozambique, Vietnam, and Myanmar. We...

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Up to the top or stuck in the middle : does gender influence how far machiavellian personalities climb the corporate ladder?

Baktash, Mehrzad; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2026

Concerns about corporate scandals and abusive leadership suggest that individuals with an opportunistic and manipulative personality sort into managerial positions. Indeed, a fledgling number of econometric studies have shown that individuals high in Machiavellianism are more likely to hold a...

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Up to the top or stuck in the middle : does gender influence how far Machiavellian personalities climb the corporate ladder?

Baktash, Mehrzad; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2026

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Team gender composition and firm performance : experimental evidence from solar entrepreneurs in Rwanda

Clarke, Rowan; Eaglin, F. Christopher; Barron, Manuel; … - 2026

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Who decides matters : female representation and academic career advancement

Brunetti, Marianna; Fabretti, Annalisa; Zoli, Mariangela - 2026

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Who decides matters : female representation and academic career advancement

Brunetti, Marianna; Fabretti, Annalisa; Zoli, Mariangela - 2024

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The influence of board and executive attributes on firm performance : insights from the Thai service sector

Witchatkarn Maythawiriyakul; Panchat Akarak - 2026

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Women Entrepreneurs Leading the Way to More and Better Jobs for Women

Gomez, Norma; Siegrist, Felicia - 2026

This brief explores the role of women entrepreneurs in job creation, focusing on how women‑owned firms contribute to women’s employment. Using data from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys (WBES) covering formally registered firms across 168 economies over 19 years, the analysis shows that...

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Doing, redoing, or undoing gender of women tech founders in Germany

Kneip, Veronika; Slavici, Melanie - 2026

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Gender diversity, governance innovation, and sustainable corporate practices : evidence from the two-tier board system

Satrio, Arif Budi - 2026

Corporate governance in emerging markets is often shaped by ownership concentration, which makes female board representation crucial. However, evidence of the role of women on boards remains limited and fragmented. This study investigates the role of female board members by using indicators of...

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Diversity and sustainability : how can gender diversity on boards impact ESG performance? Evidence from ASEAN-5 countries

Saktiawan, Bimo; Setiyono, Bowo; Rachmadi, Erfan - 2026

This study examined how gender diversity (GD) on boards affects ESG performance using unbalanced panel data of 719 companies in ASEAN-5 countries from 2013 to 2022 observation years. We found that higher GD on companies' boards significantly enhances ESG performance. Every increase in one...

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Are female leadership and innovation determinants of Tunisian firms' participation in Global Value Chains?

Gritli, Mohamed Ilyes; Ghak, Teheni el; Charfi, Fatma … - 2026

Nowadays, Global Value Chains (GVCs) play a vital role in job creation, income generation, knowledge diffusion, and productivity growth. However, significant disparities exist across countries in terms of their integration into GVCs, and Tunisia is no exception to this pattern. In this regard,...

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Gender discrimination, construction, and glass ceiling effects among women academics in a higher education institution in South Africa : exploring alternatives for women's empowerment

Ngonyama, Sicelo; Adewumi, Samson Adeoluwa - 2026

Despite several policies and legislation enactments to address gender inequality in the post-apartheid South African employment landscape, a significant proportion of female academics still face marginalization and underrepresentation in senior executive positions. This paper aims to investigate...

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Corporate gender diversity and carbon reduction : the moderating effect of national culture

Peng, Xuhui; Li, Jingduan; Liu, Yi; Tang, Qingliang; … - 2026

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Private patriarchy's impact on women's careers : through kaleidoscope career model lens

Ashraf, Farzana; Jepsen, Denise - 2026

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Do female CEOs promote behavioral consistency in firm’s nonmarket strategy : the moderating effect of board gender diversity

Alshammari, Marwan Ahmad; Dadanlar, Hazel; Banerjee, … - 2026

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Spiritual bricolage among women entrepreneurs : reframing adversity

Tesfaye, Tigist; Markowska, Magdalena; Segaro, Ethiopia … - 2026

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DIW women executives barometer : method report and codebook for the waves

Antezza, Arianna; Meiner, Alina; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2026

In the annual DIW Women Executives Barometer, we document the share of women on the executive and supervisory boards of the largest companies in Germany. We separately analyse different groups of companies, among which there are the 200 companies with the highest turnover in Germany outside the...

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