Female leadership in French voluntary associations

Lionel Prouteau () and Muriel Tabariés ()
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Lionel Prouteau: LEMNA - Laboratoire d'économie et de management de Nantes Atlantique - IEMN-IAE Nantes - Institut d'Économie et de Management de Nantes - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises - Nantes - UN - Université de Nantes
Muriel Tabariés: CES - Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: Drawing on a recent national survey, this paper focuses on the female representation on executive committees in French voluntary associations. To begin with, we observe that this representation is very unequal according to the different officer positions. It is especially low among presidents while it is markedly higher among secretaries. Then we study the relationship between the associations' attributes and the likelihood of women being appointed as executive committee members. Our investigation bears out some findings from previous studies on nonprofit female leadership. For instance, we show that the proportion of female officers is higher in organizations whose activities pertain to social service, health and humanitarian sectors. It is lower in the oldest associations and it decreases as their geographical area of activity increases and as their budget becomes larger. But we also emphasize new results. First, the probabilities that women hold president, treasurer and secretary positions are highly correlated to each other. Second, the likelihood that associations have female presidents is higher in associations with few volunteers. We consider possible explanations for the latter result.

Keywords: non profit governance; executive committees; voluntary associations; female leadership; France; gouvernance; bureaux; associations; fonctions dirigeantes; femmes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-12
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Published in Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 2010, 21 (4), pp.497-524. ⟨10.1007/s11266-010-9139-3⟩

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DOI: 10.1007/s11266-010-9139-3

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