Gender Diversity in the Boardroom

Volume 1: The Use of Different Quota Regulations

Cathrine Seierstad, Patricia Gabaldon, Heike Mensi-Klarbach, Cathrine Seierstad, Patricia Gabaldon, Heike Mensi-Klarbach

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9783319561417
• eBook ISBN:
  9783319561424
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Corporate Governance
• Index: Business

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 onsixteenEuropean countries, the skilled contributors explore the current situation in relation to women on boards debates and approaches taken. Theyinclude 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 diversitybecauseit 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.

Table of contents

• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Editors, Contributors, and Contributing Actors
• Abbreviations
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• 1: Setting the Scene: Women on Boards in Countries with Quota Regulations
• 2: Gender Quotas on Corporate Boards in Norway: Ten Years Later and Lessons Learned
• 3: Gender Diversity on Boards in Spain: A Non-mandatory Quota
• 4: Gender Diversity on Boards in Iceland: Pathway to Gender Quota Law Following a Financial Crisis
• 5: Gender Diversity on French Boards: Example of a Success from a Hard Law
• 6: Women on Board in Italy: The Pressure of Public Policies
• 7: Belgium: Male/Female United in the Boardroom
• 8: Gender Diversity on Corporate Boards in the Netherlands: Waiting on the World to Change
• 9: Women´s Access to Boards in Germany— Regulation and Symbolic Change
• 10: Gender Diversity in the Boardroom: The Multiple Versions of Quota Laws in Europe
• Index