Gender in Management: Volume 37 Issue 1

“I can, I’m doing, but I’m unfit, a tentative approach towards entrepreneurial regret”

Hira Hafeez, Qurratulain Ahsan , Ambreen Sarwar

Career choices and selections are amongst the most important predictors of a person’s perception of life satisfaction. Pursuing entrepreneurship as a career may arise as a result…

Board Gender Diversity and Cost of Debt: Do Firm Size and Industry type matter?

Rabiatu Kamil, Kingsley Opoku Appiah

This study aims to investigate the nexus between gender-diverse boards and cost of debt in the developing economies context. Specifically, the authors examine whether firm size…

Calling out the laggards: shareholder activism and board gender diversity

John P. Berns, Jaime L. Williams

While the presence of women in the boardroom has been steadily increasing, shareholders have taken action to push firms which lag in this area to add women to their boards. The…

Where is the visible commitment to gender in the advertised content of UK management degree programmes?

Linda Perriton, Carole Elliott, Anne Laure Humbert

The purpose of this paper is to establish the extent to which prospective students can see a visible commitment to study gender in the UK business/management school curriculum…

Women’s journey to the top: the role of bonding and bridging social capital

Anna Maria Górska, Dorota Dobija, Zuzanna Staniszewska, Kaja Prystupa-Rządca

Drawing on Putnam’s concept of social capital, this study aims to examine the oral life histories of women on management boards. It explores how the bridging and bonding forms of…

Does MBA education benefit women more than men? A longitudinal study

Venkat R. Krishnan

The purpose of this study is to see if women value power less than men do and if MBA education reduces this gender difference in power value.

How do personal values help to build generation Y’s entrepreneurial intentions? The role of gender differences

Saïd Aboubaker Ettis

The purpose of this paper is to assess the extent to which personal values affect entrepreneurial intentions and the extent to which this relationship depends on gender among the…

Across the pregnancy lifespan: examining workplace outcomes of concealing across stages of pregnancy

Isaac Emmanuel Sabat, Whitney Botsford Morgan, Kristen Price Jones, Sarah Singletary Walker

The authors aims to use stigma theory to predict and test a model wherein a person’s stage of pregnancy influences their workplace outcomes associated with pregnancy concealment…