Firms, boards and gender quotas : comparative perspectives
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Firms, boards and gender quotas : comparative perspectives
(Comparative social research, v. 29)
Emerald, 2012
Available at 11 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Description
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 reforms. This is the only volume where this gender quota reform is thoroughly discussed from an economic, political and philosophical point of view. It looks at whether the economic performance of companies is influenced, positively or negatively. The reasons why it has been embraced in some countries and rejected in others are analyzed. Moreover, viability of the gender quota reform is assessed by comparisons to other political interventions in business life in Scandinavia, of which some have been a failure whereas others have shown themselves as successful. This specific reform also serves as a backdrop to other themes related to gender and business. This volume provides a broad comparative study of the access of women to top positions in business in Europe. It also gives detailed discussions of gender relations in family businesses both in East Asia and in Europe.
Table of Contents
EDITORIAL BOARD.
List of Contributors.
Introduction: Gender and Varieties of Economic Power - The Significance of Family and State.
Chapter 1 Top Down or Bottom Up? A Cross-National Study of Vertical Occupational Sex Segregation in 12 European Countries.
Chapter 2 Modes Of Familism: Gender, Family Capitalism and Family Culture.
Chapter 3 Family, Labour Market Structures and the Dynamics of Self-Employment in Three Asian Countries: Gender Differences in Self-Employment Entry in Japan, Korea and Taiwan.
Chapter 4 Gender Quotas on Corporate Boards: On the Diffusion of a Distinct National Policy Reform.
Chapter 5 Why Gender Quotas in Company Boards in Norway - and Not in Sweden?.
Chapter 6 Feminism without Gender? Arguments for Gender Quotas on Corporate Boards in Norway.
Chapter 7 Women on Boards of Directors and Firm Performance: Evidence from Denmark and Norway.
Chapter 8 Limits to State Intervention into the Private Sector Economy: Aspects of Property Rights in Social Democratic Societies.
Firms, Boards and Gender Quotas: Comparative Perspectives.
Comparative social research.
Comparative social research.
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