Female Representation in the Academic Finance Profession

Mónica Pachón and Santiago E. Lacouture examine the case of Colombia and show that women’s representation has been low and remains low in most arenas of representation and across national and subnational levels of government. The authors identify institutions and the highly personalized Colombian political context as the primary reasons for this. Despite the fact that Colombia was an electoral democracy through almost all of the twentieth century, it was one of the last countries in the region to grant women political rights. Still, even given women’s small numbers, they do bring women’s issues to the political arena. Pachón and Lacoutre show that women are more likely to sponsor bills on women-focused topics, which may ultimately lead to greater substantive representation of women in Colombia.

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Does Female Representation on Boards of Directors Associate WithFortune's “100 Best Companies to Work For” List?

Business & Society ◽

10.1177/0007650305283332 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 45 (2) ◽

pp. 235-248 ◽

Cited By ~ 80

Author(s):

Richard A. Bernardi ◽

Susan M. Bosco ◽

Katie M. Vassill

Keyword(s):

Boards Of Directors ◽

Female Representation

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Simultaneous Elections and the Rise of Female Representation in Indonesia

Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs ◽

10.1177/1868103421989716 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 40 (1) ◽

pp. 50-72

Author(s):

Luky Sandra Amalia ◽

Aisah Putri Budiatri ◽

Mouliza KD. Sweinstani ◽

Atika Nur Kusumaningtyas ◽

Esty Ekawati

Keyword(s):

Presidential Elections ◽

Institutional Innovation ◽

Presidential Candidate ◽

Female Representation ◽

Legislative Elections ◽

Women Candidates ◽

Presidential Candidates ◽

Female Candidates ◽

Election Results ◽

Legislative Election

In the 2019 election, the proportion of women elected to Indonesia’s People’s Representative Assembly ( Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat, DPR) increased significantly to almost 21 per cent. In this article, we ask whether an institutional innovation – the introduction of simultaneous presidential and legislative elections – contributed to this change. We examine the election results, demonstrating that, overall, women candidates did particularly well in provinces where the presidential candidate nominated by their party won a majority of the vote. Having established quantitatively a connection between results of the presidential elections and outcomes for women legislative candidates, we turn to our qualitative findings to seek a mechanism explaining this outcome. We argue that the simultaneous elections helped women candidates by easing their access to voters who supported one of the presidential candidates, but who were undecided on the legislative election. Rather than imposing additional burdens on female candidates, simultaneous elections assisted them.

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Institutional quality and the capital structure of microfinance institutions: the moderating role of board gender diversity

Journal of Institutional Economics ◽

10.1017/s1744137421000023 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-21

Author(s):

Michael Adusei ◽

Beatrice Sarpong-Danquah

Keyword(s):

Capital Structure ◽

Institutional Environment ◽

Gender Diversity ◽

Institutional Quality ◽

Microfinance Institutions ◽

Female Representation ◽

Long Run ◽

Board Gender Diversity ◽

The Relationship

Abstract We test the effect of institutional quality on capital structure in the microfinance setting. In doing this, we rely on data from 532 microfinance institutions (MFIs) located in 73 countries dotted across the six microfinance regions in the world. We observe that institutional quality exhibits a robust negative and statistically significant relationship with capital structure in both the short and long run, implying that MFIs in countries with a better institutional environment are less likely to utilize more debt. Our moderation analysis furnishes us with evidence that the presence of women on the board of an MFI significantly moderates the relationship between institutional quality and its capital structure. We show that in the presence of more female representation on the boards of MFIs, the tendency of MFIs using less debt is higher.

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Female representation in the boardroom and firm debt: empirical evidence from Italy

Journal of Economics and Finance ◽

10.1007/s12197-017-9397-7 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 42 (2) ◽

pp. 315-338 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Fabrizio Rossi ◽

Richard J. Cebula ◽

James R. Barth

Keyword(s):

Empirical Evidence ◽

Female Representation

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Gender diversity and innovation in mining – a corpus-based discourse analysis

International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship ◽

10.1108/ijge-06-2017-0029 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 9 (4) ◽

pp. 359-376 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Ylva Fältholm ◽

Cathrine Norberg

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Gender Diversity ◽

Mining Industry ◽

Diversity Management ◽

Business Case ◽

Female Representation ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Content Type ◽

Gender Patterns ◽

Practical Implications

Purpose The purpose of this study is to gain increased knowledge about gender diversity and innovation in mining by analyzing how women are discursively represented in relation to these two concepts, and in doing so establish how diversity management is received and communicated in the industry. Design/methodology/approach The study is based on analysis of texts including references to gender diversity and innovation in mining found on the web. The tool used to retrieve the data has been WebCorpLive, a tool designed for linguistic analysis of web material. Findings Although increased female representation is communicated as a key component in the diversity management discourse, based on the idea that diversity increases innovation and creativity, closer analysis of texts on diversity and innovation in mining shows that what women are expected to contribute with has little explicit connection with innovation. Research limitations/implications The study contributes with increased knowledge about diversity management by providing an example of how it is received in a traditionally male-dominated industry. Practical implications The findings indicate that for diversity management to have a real effect in mining, it needs to be based on gender equality and social justice motives, rather than on a business case rationale – the principal motive today. To enable this change, stereotypical gender patterns, as shown in this study, need to be made visible and problematized among policy makers, practitioners and actors on all levels of the industry. Originality value The study contributes with new knowledge about gender in the mining industry previously not attended to by using a method which so far has been sparsely used in discourse analysis, although pointed out as promising.

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‘Look at Me’, I’m femininity: The female persona in 1970s musical theatre

Studies in Musical Theatre ◽

10.1386/smt_00045_1 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 14 (3) ◽

pp. 321-330 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Samantha Lampe

Keyword(s):

Musical Theatre ◽

Women's Liberation ◽

Simone De Beauvoir ◽

Female Representation ◽

Public And Private ◽

Women's Liberation Movement ◽

Betty Friedan ◽

Liberation Movement ◽

Women’S Liberation ◽

Female Image

As the Women’s Liberation Movement developed in the 1970s, women challenged society’s limited female representation as either the Madonna or the whore. Musicals in the 1970s, including Grease (1972), Chicago (1975) and Evita (1979), complicated the female image through the juxtaposition of feminine stereotypes in the heroine’s persona. With each of the shows centralizing the plot around analysing the contradictory feminine image, the women perform in both public and private settings, along with other characters critiquing their personas. From feminist protesters to the writings of Simone de Beauvoir and Betty Friedan, Sandy, Roxie and Eva reflect the requests of contemporary women to display their gender as something beyond the perceived dichotomy of Madonna or whore in their music performances.

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