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Replication Data for: Corporate Board Quotas and Gender Equality Policies in the Workplace

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Title Replication Data for: Corporate Board Quotas and Gender Equality Policies in the Workplace
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/WJINZP
 
Creator Weeks, Ana
Latura, Audrey S
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Do corporate board gender quotas increase attention to gender equality in workplace policies? Existing research examines the link between quotas, financial performance, and women's promotion, but we lack an understanding of how quotas impact the structural determinants of gender imbalance in the workplace. We compare the case of Italy, which adopted a quota in 2011, to a counterfactual country with no quota: Greece. Using a difference-in-differences approach, we analyze the corporate reports of publicly listed companies in both countries over time. We find a 50% increase in post-quota Italian companies' attention to gender equality issues, especially relating to leadership and family care. This increase is not exclusively driven by the share of women on boards, suggesting that quotas influence the importance that both women and men within firms give to gender equality. Qualitative analysis finds that observed changes are not window dressing: companies developed new equality initiatives after the quota.
 
Subject Social Sciences
Gender quotas
Corporate board quotas
Gender politics
Women’s leadership
 
Contributor Weeks, Ana
 
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