Do Gender Quotas Lead to Gender Equality?

Gender Diversity and Resilience in Firms During COVID-19 Pandemic

“…For the quantitative analysis, we used data provided by Eurostat (2020) for the last decade as official statistical sources constitute a productive empirical basis for very convincing results (Corbetta, 2014). EU countries were analyzed for their primary role in the abolition of gender inequalities and the implementation of the SDGs (Salaris et al, 2020) and implementation of the SDGs by providing statistics and indicators to assess and forecast the extent to which a country can achieve the goals of the 2030 Agenda. The forecast value of the SDGIs at 2030, consistent with previous literature, was determined through the use of the FORECAST.ETS function of Excel software that allows the identification, based on historical data, of the future value of a variable by automatically choosing the most correct value for a given dataset (Dello Strologo et al, 2021;Held et al, 2018;Hyndman & Athanasopoulos, 2019).…”

“…Finally, the analysis of how both the female ownership and the female gender of top managers interact simultaneously on the likelihood of a credit constraint would be a useful further insight into the research. Gender equality policies are closely linked to the political identity of the EU (Salaris et al, 2020). Also, within the UN, gender equality has been one of the central themes of world conferences since 1975 (UNWomen, 2020), in the wake of which first the MDGs (Sachs & McArthur, 2005) then the 2030 Agenda (United Nations, 2015) were introduced.…”