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Title: | Women on boards in Australia: achieving real change or more of the same? | Contributor(s): | Sheridan, Alison J (author)![]() |
Publication Date: | 2015 | DOI: | 10.4337/9781782547709.00029 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/18043 | Abstract: | Board roles are often framed as the ultimate career achievement for 'successful' corporate leaders (Stern and Westphal, 2010). Women's limited access to the most senior levels of organizations, including the board level, is well recognized internationally (Davies et al., 2011; Deloitte, 2011) and responses to women's under-representation differ across countries. The governments of Iceland, Israel, Norway and Spain have opted to legislate for women's representation on boards, to varying degrees and with varying timelines for compliance (Catalyst, 2012; Governance Metrics International, 2013). Other countries, such as Sweden, Finland, the UK and the USA have elected to take a more 'hands off' approach, with efforts to increase women's access to boards focusing more on self-regulation than government intervention. Following a surge in calls for quotas to be applied in Australian boardrooms in 2009 (Broderick, 2009; Fox, 2013), it is this more self-regulatory approach that has been followed in Australia. | Publication Type: | Book Chapter | Source of Publication: | Handbook of Gendered Careers in Management : Getting In, Getting On, Getting Out, p. 322-340 | Publisher: | Edward Elgar Publishing Limited | Place of Publication: | Cheltenham, United Kingdom | ISBN: | 9781782547709 9781782547686 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 150303 Corporate Governance and Stakeholder Engagement 160510 Public Policy |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 350701 Corporate governance 350717 Stakeholder engagement 440709 Public policy |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 910402 Management | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 150302 Management | HERDC Category Description: | B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book | Publisher/associated links: | http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/214287736 | Series Name: | Research Handbooks in Business and Management | Editor: | Editor(s): Adelina M Broadbridge and Sandra L Fielden |
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