Gender in Management: Volume 36 Issue 5

“Like will to like” or “opposites attract”? Management board diversity affects employer attractiveness

Philipp Schäpers, Leon Windscheid, Jens Mazei, Meinald T. Thielsch, Guido Hertel

How diversity in management boards affects employer attractiveness has yet to be fully clarified. This paper aims to contrast the two main theoretical rationales – similarity…

Against the odds of tradition: nudging the glass ceiling of sport leadership

Olivia Thornton, Naroa Etxebarria

The purpose of this study is to capture the journey of the first female leader in sports management in her country in the south-east Asian region for their National Sport and the…

Women directors and corporate performance: firm size and board monitoring as the least focused factors

Haseeb Ur Rahman, Muhammad Zahid

This paper aims to examine the impact of women directors on corporate performance (CP) and the mediating role of board monitoring in their relationship.

Gender stereotyping and self-stereotyping among Danish managers

Nina Smith, Tor Eriksson, Valdemar Smith

The purpose of this paper is to describe how gender stereotypes and self-stereotypes of Danish managers vary among managers at different job levels, from lower level managers to…

Review of research for two decades for women leadership in higher education around the world and in Vietnam: a comparative analysis

Greeni Maheshwari, Rajkishore Nayak, Tu Ngyyen

The purpose of this paper is to find the studies conducted on women leadership in higher education (WLHE) in the past 20 years to understand as to how the trend has changed over…

The family CEO’s effect on succession planning: founder status, difficulties with letting go and gender differences

Ine Umans, Nadine Lybaert, Tensie Steijvers, Wim Voordeckers

The purpose of this paper is to investigate several antecedents of succession planning in family firms: founder status, the family chief executive officer (CEO)’s inability to let…