Female Leadership and Bank Performance in Latin America

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emilia Vähämaa ◽  
Laura Baselga-Pascual
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Female Leadership ◽  
Bank Performance

Female leadership and bank performance in Latin America

2021 ◽  
pp. 100807
Author(s):  
Laura Baselga-Pascual ◽  
Emilia Vähämaa
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Female Leadership ◽  
Bank Performance

Latin American Attitudes toward Women in Politics: The Influence of Elite Cues, Female Advancement, and Individual Characteristics

2013 ◽  
Vol 107 (4) ◽  
pp. 644-662 ◽  
Author(s):  
JANA MORGAN ◽  
MELISSA BUICE
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Attitudes Toward Women ◽  
Female Leadership ◽  
Gender Attitudes ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Explanatory Variables ◽  
Gender Egalitarianism ◽  
Context Shapes

This article outlines three theoretical arguments—socialization, status discontent, and elite cues—that generate competing predictions about the way context shapes gender attitudes. Using hierarchical analysis, we assess the power of these arguments in Latin America, a region that manifests considerable variation on our central explanatory variables and thus offers important theoretical leverage. We find men's gender attitudes to be highly contingent on elite cues and susceptible to backlash effects in response to women's economic advancement. Also, where women lack national representation, distrust of government promotes support for female leadership as an alternative to the discredited (male) establishment. The analysis supports existing individual-level explanations of gender attitudes and demonstrates a connection between diffuse democratic values and gender egalitarianism. The findings suggest that recent advances for female politicians in Latin America may be susceptible to reversal, and they illuminate strategies for strengthening women's equality in the region.

Determinants of Bank Performance: Evidence for Latin America

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose Arias ◽  
Mauricio Jara-Bertin ◽  
Arturo Rodriguez
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Bank Performance

Female corporate leadership in Latin America and the Caribbean region

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (6) ◽  
pp. 790-818 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luca Flabbi ◽  
Claudia Piras ◽  
Scott Abrahams
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Women Executives ◽  
Female Leadership ◽  
Board Members ◽  
Company Performance ◽  
Female Representation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Executive Level

Purpose Despite gender parity in the general working population, the higher up one looks in ranks within the firm the fewer women one finds. This under-representation of women in top positions at firms is purportedly even more acute in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). LAC is a large and increasingly important region of the world where women are well-represented in the workforce and are comparatively better educated than men. Documenting if this resource is utilized at full potential is therefore of crucial importance. The purpose of this paper is to document the level and impact of female representation at the executive level in the region, as no systematic study exists on this topic. Design/methodology/approach The authors collect an original database of publicly listed companies to determine prevailing gender ratios among board members and executives in LAC region. The authors then estimate whether companies with women board members are more likely to appoint women executives. Finally, the authors estimate whether measures of female leadership at the firm are correlated with company performance. Findings The authors find that women are as under-represented in LAC as in the USA, but much less so in the Caribbean. The authors find that companies with women board members are more likely to appoint women executives in LAC. The authors find that measures of female leadership at the firm are correlated with company performance but only regarding board membership and only when the proportion of women on the board is greater than 30 percent. Again composition effects are important. Overall, the authors conclude that the LAC region exhibits empirical regularities about under-representation of women in leadership positions at the firm that are very similar to those found for high-income countries in Europe and North America. Originality/value The authors are the first and so far unique systematic study exists able to document the level and impact of female representation at the executive level in the region.

The Genesis and Internal Dynamics of El Salvador's People's Revolutionary Army, 1970–1976

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (01) ◽  
pp. 102-129
Author(s):  
ALBERTO MARTÍN ÁLVAREZ ◽  
EUDALD CORTINA ORERO
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
El Salvador ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Internal Dynamics ◽  
Internal Coherence ◽  
The 1960S

AbstractUsing interviews with former militants and previously unpublished documents, this article traces the genesis and internal dynamics of the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (People's Revolutionary Army, ERP) in El Salvador during the early years of its existence (1970–6). This period was marked by the inability of the ERP to maintain internal coherence or any consensus on revolutionary strategy, which led to a series of splits and internal fights over control of the organisation. The evidence marshalled in this case study sheds new light on the origins of the armed Salvadorean Left and thus contributes to a wider understanding of the processes of formation and internal dynamics of armed left-wing groups that emerged from the 1960s onwards in Latin America.

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