Women on corporate boards: key influencers or tokens?

By Beate Elstad, Gro Ladegård. Journal of Management and Governance, 2010

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Appointments, Pay and Performance in UK Boardrooms by Gender (2014, background): “The observed effect may be due to ‘tokenism’ (Kanter, 1997; Elstad and Ladegard, 2012) but it certainly qualifies as discriminatory, and in terms of the attainment an aspirational target such as a 25% female representation on FTSE100 by 2015 (Davies, 2011), it would suggest that there is more to…”
Managerial Gender Diversity and Firm Performance (2016, unknown): “In the presence of other women, female directors report more information sharing and less self-censorship of ideas (Elstad & Ladegard, 2012).”
Board Gender Diversity and Corporate Response to Sustainability Initiatives: Evidence from the Carbon Disclosure Project (2015, background): “As the proportion of female representation on boards increases, females have greater influence on the decision-making procedure (Elstad and Ladegard 2010).”