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Why women on corporate boards are more than just tokens


Why women on corporate boards are more than just tokens

The findings indicate that women can influence board outcomes without a critical mass. Developing nations such as India, where the number of ...

Why women on corporate boards are more than just tokens

By doing so, women directors overcome tokenistic stereotypes and are accepted as part of the director in-group, irrespective of their numeric representation on ...

Why women on corporate boards are more than just tokens

From a token perspective, if female directors, as minorities on a board, are ignored or face pressure to act in a diffident and obliging fashion, they will be ...

(PDF) Why women on corporate boards are more than just tokens

Abstract. Purpose Situated in the context of India, where women's representation on corporate boards remains low, this study aims to explore ...

Why women on corporate boards are more than just tokens

Findings: The study finds that, as gender minorities, women directors' visibility on boards can create performance pressures on these women. To ...

Why women on corporate boards are more than just tokens: an India...

The study finds that, as gender minorities, women directors' visibility on boards can create performance pressures on these women. To counter ...

LACK OF WOMEN IN CEO & BOARD ROLES: A Woman ... - LinkedIn

Their findings reveal that women leaders create more opportunities for the advancement of women on corporate boards. ... - Token and quota filling ...

New research shows the more women on a company's board, the ...

Using 14 years of panel data on U.S. firms, we show that the addition of a female board member has no impact on objective measures of firm ...

(PDF) Women on corporate boards: Key influencers or tokens?

more influence than the other directors. Whether an individual is a minority on a board is more complex than just the. gender dimension. We did ...

The Secret to Getting More Women on Corporate Boards - Politico

Contrary to the concerns of many executives before the law went into effect, the California law shows that they will find women who are just as ...

Doing more with more: Women on the board and firm employment

We find that firm-level employment increases while the likelihood of downsizing decreases with BOD female representation.

Women are bored of waiting: Slow progress on shattering the glass ...

The process of recruiting women to company boards is often opaque, with more than six in 10 of those surveyed saying that how individuals ...

Women on company boards - Newcastle University Business School

If we want to improve North East gender balance and company performance then 3+ women on boards should make a difference: 'one is a token, two ...

Why Women on Boards

Higher Credit Ratings · Improved corporate reputation · Women contribute to creativity and innovation of board discussions. · Recruitment and retention of talented ...

Diversity quotas will only lead to token appointments, doing more ...

First, they undermine the idea of bringing equality to corporate boards if unsuitable or unqualified women are appointed as directors. The ...

When and Why Diversity Improves Your Board's Performance

Evidence that board diversity benefits firms is mixed. A 2015 meta-analysis of 140 research studies of the relationship between female board ...

How Not to Be a Token Board Member: Diversity in Leadership

Corporate boards are gradually diversifying, but in 2021, only 36% of S&P 500 and Fortune 500 companies had three or more female directors, ...

Women directors, board attendance, and corporate financial ...

Our study encourages firms to appoint more than one woman to the boardroom to profit from an enhanced board attendance that will then also ...

The Contribution of Women on Boards of Directors: Going beyond ...

Most previous research on women directors is of a descriptive nature and focuses primarily on counting the number of women on corporate boards and following the.

The Value of the So-Called 'Token' Woman - UConn Today

Women who break into traditional male bastions—engineering teams, construction crews, tech startups, trading rooms, corporate boards, ...