La escasa presencia de mujeres directivas en la gran empresa española evidencia una fuerte segregación de género del mercado de trabajo, independiente del nivel formativo. El objetivo de este trabajo es proporcionar el perfil y estilos de dirección de las altas ejecutivas españolas, a partir de la realización de un cuestionario y de su tratamiento estadístico usando el análisis factorial. El marco teórico lo proporcionan la gestión de la diversidad y las teorías sobre paradigmas de liderazgo en la empresa. A la luz de las mismas se tratará de comprobar si existe congruencia entre el rol de género y el rol organizativo, para proponer un nuevo paradigma que minimice los efectos negativos de las posibles incongruencia

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Corporate social responsibility (CSR) researchers focus on the performance of the firms indexed in their field, and they reach different conclusions. This paper analyses if there are differences in financial performance of companies considered as highly socially responsible (those that compose the Spanish sustainability index FTSE4Good IBEX) as well as other IBEX companies not included in that index. We theoretically examine the relationship between a firm responsible behaviour and its financial performance. We also make an empirical study to analyse this relationship. The results show that the differential aspects between both groups of companies are market risk variables and debts and size variables.

There are two schools of thought in analyzing the effects of globalization on women. One school, basically optimistic but with some reserves, argues that participation in global trade and in financial markets will improve the situation of all citizens, including women. The other has got a more critical perspective and argues that economic globalization will further increase existing inequalities and will lead to new ones. Both sides of the discussion on the effects of globalization on women are valid, but there is a the need to go beyond the sterile debate on whether globalization is good or bad, and reach a more constructive and wider-scope debate on how to achieve the best possible outcomes of globalization for women. Globalization must be analyzed from a multidimensional perspective and it is only by means of this process and by analyzing the real experiences of actors in adapting to globalization that we can understand the true outreach of globalization. According to this alternative perspective and in trying to develop a constructive debate on the impact of globalization on women a set of practices have to be detected, analyzed, and promoted in order to minimize the negative impacts of globalization on women and reinforce the positive ones. They include, among others: cultural change; sustained and mutually-agreed action programs among business schools, companies, and other interest groups such as the public sector; and removing the glass ceiling in MNCs, including codes of conduct as a part of their corporate social responsibility.