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This report, witten by Annu Kotiranta, Anne Kovalainen, Petri Rouvinen has been published by the Finnish Business and Policy Forum. This should inspire our shreholders when they chose a CEO…
Summary
Less than a tenth of the CEOs of Finnish firms and less than a fourth of the corporate board members are women. From a social standpoint more women are desired in top management, but should firms’ owners and those represent¬ing their business interests be concerned with women’s role in top management? Since hard facts have been in short supply, we seek to an¬swer the question by applying scientific research methods.
Our results indicate that a company led by a female CEO is on average slightly more than a percentage point – in practice about ten per cent – more profitable than a corresponding company led by a male CEO. This observation holds even after taking into account size differences and a number other factors possibly affecting profit¬ability. The share of female board members also has a similar positive impact. These findings are significant and important not only from a statistical and research perspective but also from a business standpoint.
This article, which is in a quite provocative way published under the title “Are Women Asking for Low Wages? Gender Differences in Wage Bargaining Strategies and Ensuing Bargaining Success” has been revised in May 2007. It has been written by Jenny Säve-Söderbergh and shows that women are clearly less competitive when bargaining on their salaries and positions, which is one explanation of the gender gap….
Report published by the Swedish institute for Social Research, Universitetsvägen 10 E, Stockholm University, Sweden
After some hard science, we have here some practical realities, with this remarkable tool, the Ladder, that can be used by a lot of organization in order to promote equality in a simple way. This tool is a report realized by Gender Mainstreaming Support (JämStöd), a Swedish committee of inquiry that has worked for two years under a government mandate to provide information about gender mainstreaming and to develop practical methods and models for mainstreaming gender into central government activities.
A further task of the committee has been to train central government administrators in the practical implementation of the process. They have collaborated with a number of government agencies that have led the way in seeking to ensure that the services they provide to the general public benefit women and men equally.
Gender Mainstreaming Manual, A book of practical methods from the Swedish Gender Mainstreaming Support Committee, Stockholm 2007, (Ann Boman, Committee Chair /Ulrika Eklund, Carina Löfgren)
The foreword
This book contains our most tried and tested methods. We hope that it will inspire both those of you who want to start the ball rolling and those who wish to take JämStöd’s methods and models for gender mainstreaming a step further
