Gender board diversity across Europe throughout four decades

Hubert Drazkowski, Joanna Tyrowicz and Sebastian Zalas

No 87, GRAPE Working Papers from GRAPE Group for Research in Applied Economics

Abstract: We present a Gender Board Diversity Dataset (GBDD), which provides a cross-country perspective on women in management and supervisory boards that spans between 1985 and 2020. The data covers 43 European countries and accounts for private companies in addition to the stock-listed ones. GBBD was created using firm-level Orbis data. Our measures are based on a sample of more than 28 million unique firms observed for nearly seven years on average and reporting data about nearly 59 million individuals on management and supervisory boards. We provide the measures at the level of industry, country and year (the firm-level data is proprietary). We provide three measures. The first is the share of women among all board members in a given industry, country, and year. The second one is the average of the shares of women across firms in a given industry, country and year. We also provide a new measure: the share of firms in a given industry, country and year which report no single woman on their board(s).

Keywords: gender; board; diversity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C81 J16 J24 M12 M51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 2023
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