Firms, boards and gender quotas comparative perspective /

During the last decade gender equality in business life has become a hot topic. One impetus is the recent reform in Norway, prescribing gender quotas to the boards of directors of public companies. Shortly after the Norwegian reform was enacted, several other European countries have adopted similar...

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Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Engelstad, Fredrik, 1944-, Teigen, Mari
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2012.
Σειρά:Comparative social research ; v. 29.
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Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • ch. 1. Top down or bottom up? : a cross-national study of vertical occupational sex segregation in 12 European countries / Andrea Schäfer, Ingrid Tucci, Karin Gottschall
  • ch. 2. Modes of familism : gender, family capitalism and family culture / Jorun Solheim, Ragnhild Steen Jensen
  • ch. 3. Family, labour market structures and the dynamics of self-employment in three Asian countries : gender differences in the self-employment entry in Japan, Korea and Taiwan / Hirohisa Takenoshita
  • ch. 4. Gender quotas on corporate boards : on the diffusion of a distinct national policy reform / Mari Teigen
  • ch. 5. Why gender quotas in company boards in Norway : and not in Sweden? / Vibeke Heidenreich
  • ch. 6. Feminism without gender? : arguments for gender quotas on corporate boards in Norway / Hilde Bjørkhaug, Siri Øyslebø Sørensen
  • ch. 7. Women on boards of directors and firm performance : evidence from Denmark and Norway / Harald Dale-Olsen, Pål Schøne, Mette Verner
  • ch. 8. Limits to state intervention into the private sector economy : aspects of property rights in social democratic societies / Fredrik Engelstad.