Fed‐up with Blair's babes, Gordon's gals, Cameron's cuties, Nick's nymphets

Mavin, Sharon; Bryans, Patricia; Cunningham, Rosie

doi:10.1108/17542411011081365

Cited by 63 publications

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“…Although there is evidence showing that the leadership styles of women and men are different (e.g., Alonso-Almeida et al, 2015) and, consequently, might affect CSR reporting in a different way, society and stakeholders' scrutiny of directors with political connections will be the same for men and women. Politicians are stigmatized by society and stakeholders, irrespective of whether they are females or males since the mere fact of being a politician is negatively perceived by society, as suggested above (see Mavin et al, 2010, for a more in-depth review).…”

Section: Female Community Leaders and Csr Disclosurementioning

confidence: 95%

Female directors on boards. The impact of faultlines on CSR reporting

Ramón-Llorens

García‐Meca

Pucheta‐Martínez

2020

SAMPJ

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Purpose This paper aims to analyze the role of female directors on CSR disclosure. It assumes the existence of faultlines when studying gender diversity and classifies female directors into three categories: industry experts, advisors and community leaders. It also examines the influence of the power of female directors as a moderator on the association between female director categories and CSR disclosure. Design/methodology/approach The paper bases on a dynamic generalized method of moments panel estimator which allows controlling for the unobservable heterogeneity and endogeneity and reduces the estimation bias. Findings Results confirm the double-sided nature of gender diversity, noting different behavior among female directors according to their experience and backgrounds. Moreover, the dominating owner position of female directors can balance and moderate the effect of female directors appointed for their technical knowledge or political and social ties. The results also confirm the necessity to not consider all women directors as a homogeneous group and explore the influence and interrelations of female faultlines on CSR disclosure. Practical implications The paper highlights the need to consider the specific skills, expertise, and connections of female board members when analyzing the effect of board composition, and supports the view that firms should emphasize the unique human and social capital of directors to understand how boards impact on firm strategies. Specifically, the authors support the recommendations of the European Commission (2011) regarding the need to increase skills and expertise when selecting new non-executive female board members. Social implications At a time when most governments are introducing active policies that require firms to nominate women to boards, the understanding of the consequences of women’s presence on boards and the interrelations between female power and the diverse categories of female directors is timely and important. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first paper that provides empirical evidence to the scarcely studied area of the human and social capital of female directors’ roles in CSR disclosure, providing an alternative view of the role of women in corporate board effectiveness.

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Section: Female Community Leaders and Csr Disclosurementioning

confidence: 95%

Female directors on boards. The impact of faultlines on CSR reporting

Ramón-Llorens

García‐Meca

Pucheta‐Martínez

2020

SAMPJ

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“…This is in stark contrast to findings from existing research, with both entrepreneurship and organisation scholars revealing highly gendered media depictions that disadvantage women. For example, depictions of both leadership and entrepreneurship suggest women are invisible, marginalised and trivialised Eikhof, Carter and Summers, 2013;Mavin, Elliott, Stead and Williams 2016), and stereotyped (Mavin, Bryans and Cunningham, 2010). Within this research there is limited engagement with the debates about postfeminism, and the broader neoliberal context, in shaping media depictions of women and work.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 92%

“…It considers if and how a postfeminist sensibility informs contemporary newsprint media representations of women entrepreneurs. Media representations of active and powerful women are ideologically and stereotypically framed (Mavin, Bryans and Cunningham, 2010) and aligned to dominant hegemonic relations, producing and reproducing images of women engaged in 'feminine' activities (MacNeill, 1988). According to MacNeill patriarchal systems of semiology orchestrate hegemonic relations and enable various types of signs, transmitted to mass audiences, which are not neutral or natural.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Heroines of enterprise: Post-recession media representations of women and entrepreneurship in a UK newspaper 2008–2016

Nadin

Smith

Jones

2020

International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurs

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This article analyses contemporary media representations of female entrepreneurs in the daily UK broadsheet ‘The Times’. While existing research shows how the media ignores or trivialises entrepreneurship of women, our focus is on the emergence of the successful female entrepreneur, an increasingly prominent, heroic media genre. We suggest that this is one response to the recession of 2008 and the broader neoliberal context in which women are positioned as central to economic recovery. We interrogate this recent expression of entrepreneurial femininity, adopting a critical perspective on postfeminism to reveal the values and ideals associated with this privileged form. We argue that this version of entrepreneurial femininity is the female equivalent of the mythologised male hero – accomplished, hard-working and successful at work and home. Implications are explored in terms of the expectations associated with entrepreneurship done by women, and the extent to which these challenge gendered norms; whom this ‘privileges’; who this excludes; and the negative impact such hegemonic femininities have on recognising and supporting ‘alternative’/heterogeneous forms of entrepreneurship done by both women and men.

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“…Moreover women are expected to accommodate to masculine norms of management even though behaviours valued in men can be regarded as deficient in women (Heilman and Okimoto, 2007; Kumra and Vinnicombe, 2010; Mavin, 2009; Oakley, 2000). Individuals form expectations for the social roles of others based on the stereotypical and appropriate behaviours expected of women and men (Mavin, Bryans and Cunningham, 2010; Powell, Butterfield and Bartol, 2008). Male dominated cultures are associated with competitiveness and emotional detachment which can further serve to ostracize and undermine women.…”

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25 Years On: Reflecting on the Past and Looking to the Future in Gender and Management Research

Broadbridge¹,

Simpson²

2011

British J of Management

187

234

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This paper celebrates the progress that has been made in gender and management research over the last 25 years and outlines some current challenges faced. The British Journal of Management has disseminated many of the key debates, from empirical and theoretical work, that have helped to both frame and reflect developments in the fieldand this paper charts some of this diverse terrain. Challenges include current conceptualizations that gender issues have been 'solved' with a tendency towards 'gender denial' in understandings of work based disadvantage. Future areas of research are identified including the need to continue to monitor and publicize gender difference; to clarify and conceptualize emerging gendered hierarchies and new forms of gendered power; and to reveal hidden, gendered practices and processes currently concealed within norms, customs and values.

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Fed‐up with Blair's babes, Gordon's gals, Cameron's cuties, Nick's nymphets

Cited by 63 publications

References 52 publications

Female directors on boards. The impact of faultlines on CSR reporting

Female directors on boards. The impact of faultlines on CSR reporting

Heroines of enterprise: Post-recession media representations of women and entrepreneurship in a UK newspaper 2008–2016

25 Years On: Reflecting on the Past and Looking to the Future in Gender and Management Research

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