Gender Equality and Policy Implementation in the Corporate World
Making Democracy Work in Business
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 19 May 2022
- ISBN 9780198865216
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages406 pages
- Size 240x163x27 mm
- Weight 762 g
- Language English 205
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Short description:
How can gender equality be successfully mainstreamed at the upper echelons of the corporate world, and successfully break the glass ceiling at its apex? This book takes a comparative look into this timely question through the investigation of the opportunities,challenges, and pitfalls in gender equality on corporate boards.
MoreLong description:
Gender Equality and Policy Implementation in the Corporate World takes a unique approach to the issue of gender equality in corporations in the 21st century. It examines the implementation of specific policies that seek to promote women's presence on corporate boards in 15 democracies in Western and Central Eastern Europe, North America, and Australasia through the lens of the Gender Equality Policy in Practice Approach. The thirteen empirically rich country chapters by leading country experts and two separate comparative chapter answer core questions. How were policies adopted and implemented? Did they achieve any degree of success that would allow for real and lasting equality? What were the politics of the pursuit of corporate gender equality across the 15 countries? What worked and did not work and why? What are the lessons to be drawn from these experiences?
The findings of the book show that policy implementation does matter, but that in this last bastion of male domination, policies have had more success in increasing women's numbers over challenging gender-biased norms that block women of all cultural and socio-economic backgrounds from gaining real power on boards. The path-breaking study shows that the reasons for this slow change are highly complex and case specific, in the details of each policy mix. While progress has been slow in coming, it has still been made even in these challenging times. Future policy success, the book concludes, is in the hands of men and women willing to come forward to overcome these well entrenched obstacles.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Negotiating Gender Equality in the Corporate World?
The Board Room as Terrain for Comparative Gender Policy Research
POLICY PATH 1: SELF-REGULATION
Track 1. Flagship Approach: Self- Regulation by Design
Accommodating Gender through Self-regulation: A Limited Response for Equity on Boards in Australia
Self-regulation Comes at a Cost: Closing-off Authoritative Policy for Gender Equality on Corporate Boards in the UK
Avoiding Quotas at all Costs: How Self-Regulation Undermines Gender Transformation in Sweden
Track 2. Piecemeal Approach: Self-regulation by Default
Set to Fail? Scattered Regulation Leaves the Glass Ceiling “Unbroken” in the US
Implementing Corporate Equality through Quebec Inc.: The Promise and Pitfalls of a Feminist Outlier in Canada
Diffusing Equality Without Domestic Champions? Incremental Change and Window-dressing in Croatia and Serbia
Designed for Failure? Advocating Equality Against Adversity in Hungary and Poland
POLICY PATH 2: STATE-REGULATION
Track 1. Flagship Approach: Legislative Regulation by Quota
From Shockwave to Ripple? The Nuanced Impact of Corporate Quotas in Norway
A "Success Story" Beyond Numbers? Business Resistance Trumps Timid Feminist Demands in France
Opportunities for Equality in Times of Crisis: The Transformative Potential of Corporate Quotas in Belgium
Track 2: Mixed Approach: Self-Regulation Stumbles Slowly into Legislated Quotas
Early to Act, Late to Achieve: Poor Implementation Limits Transformative Change in Spain
Mobilizing for Quotas Against all odds: The Long Road to Corporate Equality in Germany
Implementing Paradox: A Conservative Gender Regime Limits the Transformative Potential of Quotas in Austria
APPLYING A COMPARATIVE LENS
What Works and Why? The Politics of Corporate Gender Equality by the Numbers
The Transformative Power of Public Policy: Looking Back, Looking Ahead
