The gender dimension of business elites

Italian women directors since 1934

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12547813
AutoresMichela Gamba (Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Economiques, autor de correspondencia), Andrea Goldstein (Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Economiques)
Año2009
Volumen14
Número2
Páginas199-225
Fecha de publicación2009-05-06
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Modern Italian Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1354-571X • E-ISSN: 1469-9583
EditorialRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13545710902826469
OpenAlexW2076097964
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas13

Gender is an important, albeit understudied, dimension in the analysis of business elites. In this paper we analyze the importance of women in the board of directors of listed Italian companies since 1934. We show that women are less represented in boards in Italy than in other comparable OECD countries, but also that listed companies are less open to women than other centres of powers, such as the public administration and liberal professions. In addition, in a country where board interlocking is a key device to ensure separation between ownership and control, very few women hold multiple directorships. We then present the results of a prosopographical study on women directors in seven benchmark years: 1962, 1970, 1978, 1986, 1994, 2002, and 2007. We conclude with a discussion of various policy options to enhance gender diversification on the boards of Italian listed companies

Business · Corporate governance · Demographic economics · Dimension (graph theory · Diversification (marketing strategy · Economics · Political science · Shareholder · Corporate Finance and Governance · Family Business Performance and Succession · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Accounting · Finance · Marketing