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How can gender equality be successfully mainstreamed at the upper echelons of the corporate world, and successfully break the glass ceiling at its apex? This book takes a comparative look into this timely question through the investigation of the opportunities,challenges, and pitfalls in gender equality on corporate boards.
Sommario
- 1: Isabelle Engeli and Amy Mazur: Introduction: Negotiating Gender Equality in the Corporate World?
- 2: Isabelle Engeli and Amy Mazur: The Board Room as Terrain for Comparative Gender Policy Research
- POLICY PATH 1: SELF-REGULATION
- Track 1. Flagship Approach: Self- Regulation by Design
- 3: Lucie Newsome and Alison Sheridan: Accommodating Gender through Self-regulation: A Limited Response for Equity on Boards in Australia
- 4: Susan Milner: Self-regulation Comes at a Cost: Closing-off Authoritative Policy for Gender Equality on Corporate Boards in the UK
- 5: Lenita Friedenvall: Avoiding Quotas at all Costs: How Self-Regulation Undermines Gender Transformation in Sweden
- Track 2. Piecemeal Approach: Self-regulation by Default
- 6: Season Hoard: Set to Fail? Scattered Regulation Leaves the Glass Ceiling "Unbroken" in the US
- 7: Joan Grace: Implementing Corporate Equality through Quebec Inc.: The Promise and Pitfalls of a Feminist Outlier in Canada
- 8: Andrea Spehar: Diffusing Equality Without Domestic Champions? Incremental Change and Window-dressing in Croatia and Serbia
- 9: Beata Nagy, Ewa Lisowska and Ewa Ruminska-Zimny: Designed for Failure? Advocating Equality Against Adversity in Hungary and Poland
- POLICY PATH 2: STATE-REGULATION
- Track 1. Flagship Approach: Legislative Regulation by Quota
- 10: Mari Teigen: From Shockwave to Ripple? The Nuanced Impact of Corporate Quotas in Norway
- 11: Soline Blanchard and Marion Rabier: A "Success Story" Beyond Numbers? Business Resistance Trumps Timid Feminist Demands in France
- 12: Hannelore Roos and Patrizia Zanoni: Opportunities for Equality in Times of Crisis: The Transformative Potential of Corporate Quotas in Belgium
- Track 2: Mixed Approach: Self-Regulation Stumbles Slowly into Legislated Quotas
- 13: Emanuela Lombardo and Tanià Verge: Early to Act, Late to Achieve: Poor Implementation Limits Transformative Change in Spain
- 14: Petra Ahrens and Alexandra Scheele: Mobilizing for Quotas Against all odds: The Long Road to Corporate Equality in Germany
- 15: Nora Gresch and Birgit Sauer: Implementing Paradox: A Conservative Gender Regime Limits the Transformative Potential of Quotas in Austria
- APPLYING A COMPARATIVE LENS
- 16: Isabelle Engeli and Amy Mazur: What Works and Why? The Politics of Corporate Gender Equality by the Numbers
- 17: Isabelle Engeli and Amy Mazur: The Transformative Power of Public Policy: Looking Back, Looking Ahead
Info autore
Isabelle Engeli is Professor of Public Policy and Head of the Politics Department at the University of Exeter. She leads, with Amy Mazur, the Gender Equality Policy in Practice (GEPP) International Network. Her research appears in journals such as European Journal of Political Research, European Journal of Politics and Gender, Journal of European Public Policy, Regulation & Governance, Revue Française de Science Politics, and West European Politics. She is Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Political Research, and Founding Editor of the European Journal of Politics and Gender. She currently serves as the Vice-President of the International Public Policy Association and on the Advisory Board of the European Politics and Society Section of the APSA.
Amy G. Mazur is CO Johnson Distinguished Professor in Political Science at Washington State University and Associate Researcher at LIEPP, Sciences Po Paris. Her recent books include: The OUP Handbook of French Politics (edited with Robert Elgie and Emiliano Grossman, 2015); The Politics of State Feminism: Innovation in Comparative Research (with Dorothy McBride, Temple University Press, 2010). She is currently co convening, with Isabelle Engeli (Exeter University), the Gender Equality Policy in Practice Network (GEPP). She currently is Lead Editor at French Politics.
Riassunto
How can gender equality be successfully mainstreamed at the upper echelons of the corporate world, and successfully break the glass ceiling at its apex? This book takes a comparative look into this timely question through the investigation of the opportunities,challenges, and pitfalls in gender equality on corporate boards.
