Female corporate owners and female CEOs

Agnès Charpin, Ariane Szafarz and Ilan Tojerow

Economics Letters, 2023, vol. 232, issue C

Abstract: “Old boys’ club” ownership structures can hamper the empowerment of female talent. We use African data to show that the CEOs of firms with female shareholders are more likely to be women, regardless of the size of female shareholdings.

Keywords: Gender; Ownership; Leadership; CEO; Development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D22 G32 J71 M51 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2023.111285

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