ID: 59363
Authors:
Francisca Everlene Nogueira Pessoa, Ana Jeniffer Rebouças Maia, Magali Carvalho Façanha, Daniel Barboza Guimarães, Sílvia Maria Dias Pedro Rebouças.
Source:
Revista Gestão Organizacional, v. 13, n. 3, p. 162-183, September-December, 2020. 22 page(s).
Keyword:
Administrative Council , Gender diversity , High administration
Document type: Article (Portuguese)
Show Abstract
Considering the growing involvement of women in business and the consequent female representation in companies, the study provides a cross-national analysis of women's participation in organizations, investigating gender diversity in companies both from the perspective of corporate governance as well as from the management perspective. With quantitative, descriptive, and documentary methodology, tests of descriptive statistics, analysis of variance, Pearson correlation and multiple linear regression were performed in a sample composed of 611 BRICS companies. For gender diversity, a dependent variable, the participation of women in corporate governance, represented by the board of directors, and corporate management, represented by senior management, was considered. The independent variables consisted of factors related to the board of directors, company size, profitability, and national culture, in their individualism and masculinity dimensions. There was a low female representation in companies, indicating that women have less participation than men in the corporate power structure and there were significant differences in the female participation of companies between countries. Furthermore, the results point to profitability and national culture, represented by individualism and masculinity, as determinants of the gender diversity of the sample companies. Thus, the work highlights gender diversity and contributes to the discussion about the determinants of female participation in the board of directors and in top management, providing empirical evidence of the analysis for countries in emerging economies.
