Theatre and the female presence

2004 ◽  
pp. 71-89
Author(s):  
Joanne Lafler
Keyword(s):  
Female Presence

scholarly journals Women on Boards and Firm Performance: A Microeconometric Search for a Connection

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 218
Author(s):  
Marek Gruszczyński
Keyword(s):  
Firm Performance ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Company Performance ◽  
Corporate Boards ◽  
Econometric Evidence ◽  
Women On Boards ◽  
Modern Business ◽  
Improved Performance ◽  
Female Presence

This paper discusses questions of the gender diversity of corporate boards vis-à-vis firm performance. Typically, researchers have asked if a female presence is associated with improved performance and more transparent governance. The paper’s first part reports on several econometric attempts in the quest to prove the existence of such an association. The primary outcome is that the results vary over geographical, cultural, and time settings. The study presented in the second part examines European firms’ annual reports from 2015. Binomial models, multiple regression, and quantile regression are applied resulting in the finding that female presence on a board is not significantly related to firm performance for this sample. Together with the picture that emerged from the paper’s first part, this result leads to the possibility that the search for an association between women on boards and company performance is not fundamental. Nevertheless, modern business societies worldwide may need to boost the female presence on managerial bodies. Current econometric evidence indicates that this is not harmful to corporate results.

Board gender diversity: performance and risk of Brazilian firms

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mauro Mastella ◽  
Daniel Vancin ◽  
Marcelo Perlin ◽  
Guilherme Kirch
Keyword(s):  
Firm Performance ◽  
Boards Of Directors ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Ordinary Least Squares ◽  
Firm Risk ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Female Presence ◽  
Board Gender Diversity ◽  
The Impact

Purpose This study aims to intend to check if female board representation affects performance and risk and to analyse the evolution of the demographic aspects of the presence of women on boards in Brazil. Design/methodology/approach The authors used a sample of 150 Brazilian publicly traded companies from 2010–2018, with different measures of firm performance, firm risk and women’s presence on the board. The study approach is based on a set of ordinary least squares, quantile and panel data regressions. Findings The presence of women on the board has a positive effect on all of our accounting and market performance measures. However, the result of the impact on risk is not conclusive. The study also found that the number of females on the board has a more significant effect at the lower levels of firm performance measured by return on equity, but at the higher levels when measured by Tobin’s Q. Regarding return on assets, the more significant effect happened on the extremes of the performance distribution. The study findings point that market investors place more value in female presence on the board than in director positions. Originality/value By estimating the impact of women’s presence on the boards of directors in firm performance and risk, this study aimed to verify this impact in different aspects of the company. In addition, the authors did so in a sample with many years, making it possible to evaluate the historical evolution of the feminine presence in the boards of administration as well as in the groups of directors, assisting Brazilian legislators with new evidence about the possible impacts of Draft Law 7179/2017.

Involvement of the catecholamine mechanisms in the activation of mouse hypophyseotesticular complex induced by the female presence effect

1987 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. V. Naumenko ◽  
T. G. Amstislavskaya ◽  
A. V. Osadchuk
Keyword(s):  
Female Presence

scholarly journals Gender diversity and governance: Analysis of Italian listed companies

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (4, Special Issue) ◽  
pp. 329-338
Author(s):  
Graziella Sicoli ◽  
Giovanni Bronzetti ◽  
Dominga Ippolito ◽  
Giada Leonetti
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Performance ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Corporate Board ◽  
Italian Law ◽  
Governance Analysis ◽  
Female Presence ◽  
Underrepresentation Of Women ◽  
The Impact

In recent years, many countries have adopted different legislative and self-regulatory initiatives to be able to tackle the problem of the underrepresentation of women on boards. Also, Italy with Law No. 120/2011 introduced the gender issue adopting the normative that 1/3 of the elected members would be women. In this job, a primary aim was to study over the period 2016/2018 the impact of female presence on boards of 50 companies listed on the Italian Stock Exchange. In depth, our results confirm that Italian Law has produced significant effects on the composition of the corporate board. The result of our study shows that women positively influence corporate performance, this is perfectly in line with the literature on gender diversity. The contribution of the work is that the empirical study conducted on the 50 companies listed on the Milan Stock Exchange allows confirming what has been claimed in the literature and that is the importance of the female presence on the boards. An immediate reading of the data allows us to confirm that the female presence in corporate governance has a positive impact on corporate performance and productivity.

scholarly journals An Update on the Female Presence at the IOI

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 127-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefano MAGGIOLO
Keyword(s):  
Female Presence

Women in Herodotus’ Oracles. A Look beyond the Pythia

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carmen Sánchez-Mañas
Keyword(s):  
Female Presence

Women other than the Pythia are excluded from the consultation and reception of oracles, but they are nevertheless present in the oracular passages of Herodotus’ Histories. This paper focuses on the roles that they play in these passages, with the aim of determining the extent of their visibility. To this end, an analysis is conducted on the basis of their belonging or non-belonging to the community of male consultants or recipients of oracles. The examination shows that female presence in Herodotean oracular passages is quantitatively significant, diverse and pivotal in revealing interactions between the domestic and public domains within the communities involved in these passages.

Impact of Female Presence in a Top Management Team on Innovation

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (1) ◽  
pp. 14327
Author(s):  
Jangwook Lee ◽  
Jiyoon Chung
Keyword(s):  
Top Management Team ◽  
Management Team ◽  
Top Management ◽  
Female Presence

Balzac’s Louis Lambert

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Jefferson
Keyword(s):  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Essential Role ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Female Presence

This chapter studies Balzac's Louis Lambert (1832), in which the character of Lambert is a (possibly) mentally ill genius who retreats into a world to which only his erstwhile fiancée has access. Through his writings Balzac attempts to examine and portray a certain topic on the matter of geniuses: the essential role played by women in their survival. Louis Lambert ends with the destruction of the main character, a male genius who nonetheless exemplifies all Balzac's own ideas about genius, and is also its most complete and elaborate theorist. Once again, fiction's interest in its failure may reveal more about genius than success. And that failure is also accompanied—still with considerable ambiguity—by the female presence that Balzac argued also deserved recognition as the essential helpmeet of genius.

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