Implicit gender quota in European boardrooms

Joanna Tyrowicz and Hubert Drazkowski

No 96, GRAPE Working Papers from GRAPE Group for Research in Applied Economics

Abstract: We test for implicit gender quotas in the boardroom. We use novel dataset covering 11 million European corporations over three decades. We find that -- accounting for the pool of available candidates -- gender-blind hiring of women to board positions is highly improbable. Implicit quotas refer to unspoken policies or practices that result in a specific gender composition. Tokenism is one such example: in order to project the reputation of supporting diversity, an organization may prefer to invite a single representative of minority (or representatives of minorities) without endowing them with actual decision power.

Keywords: gender; board; diversity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C81 J16 J24 M12 M51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 14 pages
Date: 2024
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