Quotas For Women On Corporate Boards The Call For Change In Europe
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| Author | : Irina Velkova |
| Publisher | : Anchor Academic Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 42 |
| Release | : 2017-10-04 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 395489923X |
The debate for higher female representation on corporate boards has become particularly intensive during the recent financial crisis. Scholars advocate that women are more risk-averse, more engaged with longer-term issues and tend to draw more attention to governance and ethics. Thus, it is suggested that due to the behavioural differences between men and women, more gender-balanced boards would have prevented a number of financial collapses. This assertion has triggered more detailed analyses of current statistics for women on boards in the European Union. A number of states have implemented various non-binding measures for improving female representation on boards. This brought them acclaim, yet no discernible results. Should we indeed insist to have gender-balanced boards, we need quotas. Evidence is of strong support.
| Author | : P. Profeta |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 297 |
| Release | : 2014-07-29 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1137427485 |
Women Directors analyzes the Italian law on gender quotas in boards as a vital opportunity for the country and a key international case. It provides a broad perspective of the new Italian experience, which has the potential of influencing the way of addressing gender issues worldwide.
| Author | : Cathrine Seierstad |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 285 |
| Release | : 2017-09-13 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 3319561421 |
This edited collection provides a structured and in-depth analysis of the current use of quota strategies for resolving the pressing issue of gender inequality, and the lack of female representation on corporate boards. Filling the gap in existing literature on this topic, the two volumes of Gender Diversity in the Boardroom offers systematic overviews of current debates surrounding the optimisation of gender diversity, and the suggested pathways for progress. Focusing on sixteen European countries, the skilled contributors explore the current situation in relation to women on boards debates and approaches taken. They include detailed reflections from critical stakeholders, such as politicians, practitioners and policy-makers. Volume 1 focuses on eight European countries having adopted quotas and is a promising and highly valuable resource for academics, practitioners, policy makers and anyone interested in gender diversity because it examines and critiques the current corporate governance system and national strategies for increasing the share of women not only on boards, but within companies beyond the boardroom.
| Author | : World Bank Group |
| Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
| Total Pages | : 271 |
| Release | : 2015-09-18 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1464806780 |
In a changing world, how can we be sure that women as well as men entrepreneurs and workers obtain the benefit from these changes? Ensuring that women have the same legal opportunities as men is one part of the picture. By measuring where the law treats men and women differently, Women, Business and the Law shines a light on how women's incentives or capacity to work are affected by the legal environment and provides a basis for improving regulation. The fourth edition in a series, Women, Business and the Law 2016: Getting to Equal examines laws and regulations affecting women's prospects as entrepreneurs and employees in 173 economies, across seven areas: accessing institutions, using property, getting a job, providing incentives to work, building credit, going to court, and protecting women from violence. The report's quantitative indicators are intended to inform research and policy discussions on how to improve women's economic opportunities and outcomes.
| Author | : Julie Ballington |
| Publisher | : International IDEA |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Women |
| ISBN | : 9789185391639 |
This report examines women's political representation in Europe and announces a surprising problem with gender quotas, which elsewhere in the world have been an important measure for boosting the number of women in legislative bodies. In the newly democratic countries of eastern Europe, however, quotas often are rejected as negative reminders of the hollow declarations of state-sponsored socialism. Eastern and western European countries are compared by detailing quotas studied and implemented in Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Serbia and Montenegro, and Slovenia.
| Author | : Silke Machold |
| Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2015-01-30 |
| Genre | : Boards of directors |
| ISBN | : 9781782547938 |
This book provides unique insights into how the idea of quota laws to get women on to corporate boards gained international momentum from its origins in Norway. Invaluable insights are gained through the stories of actors involved in shaping the discourse and practice on women of boards. In exploring political contexts, the role of the advocacy movement, experiences of women directors themselves and latest research findings, the contributors provide a comprehensive overview of the rationales, processes and outcomes of formal approaches to gender diversity on boards. Drawing on insights from political, business and academic actors, the book discusses how and why the Norwegian law on gender equality on corporate boards is turning into a blueprint for action internationally. Getting Women on to Corporate Boards will prove an invaluable resource for policy-makers, principle-setters, practitioners and students interested in the international lessons from Norway, as well as for current and potential female directors.
| Author | : Mari Teigen |
| Publisher | : Emerald Group Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2012-02-10 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1780526733 |
Discusses gender quota reform from an economic, political and philosophical point of view. This title looks at whether the economic performance of companies is influenced, positively or negatively. It provides a comparative study of the access of women to top positions in business in Europe.
| Author | : Éléonore Lépinard |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 491 |
| Release | : 2018-07-19 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 110842922X |
Explains the adoption, diffusion of, and resistance to gender quotas in politics, corporate boards and public administration across Europe.
| Author | : World Bank |
| Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
| Total Pages | : 381 |
| Release | : 2021-04-05 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1464816530 |
Women, Business and the Law 2021 is the seventh in a series of annual studies measuring the laws and regulations that affect women’s economic opportunity in 190 economies. The project presents eight indicators structured around women’s interactions with the law as they move through their lives and careers: Mobility, Workplace, Pay, Marriage, Parenthood, Entrepreneurship, Assets, and Pension. This year’s report updates all indicators as of October 1, 2020 and builds evidence of the links between legal gender equality and women’s economic inclusion. By examining the economic decisions women make throughout their working lives, as well as the pace of reform over the past 50 years, Women, Business and the Law 2021 makes an important contribution to research and policy discussions about the state of women’s economic empowerment. Prepared during a global pandemic that threatens progress toward gender equality, this edition also includes important findings on government responses to COVID-19 and pilot research related to childcare and women’s access to justice.
| Author | : Susan Franceschet |
| Publisher | : OUP USA |
| Total Pages | : 269 |
| Release | : 2012-03-02 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0199830096 |
The Impact of Gender Quotas is a theory-building and comparative exercise in elaborating concepts commonly used to analyze the broad impacts of gender quotas. Using a conceptual framework based upon descriptive, substantive and symbolic dimensions of representation, the book presents case studies from twelve countries in Western Europe, Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia.
