The first introduction of mandatory gender quotas in the boardroom took place in Norway. A law passed in June 2003 and a subsequent amendment established a minimum of 40% presence of both genders in Public Limited Companies (ASA’s). Specifically, such companies were given as deadline the beginning of 2008 to satisfy this requirement with noncompliance being sanctioned with forced liquidation.
This year will thus represent the 10th year anniversary of the full implementation of the first and probably most far-reaching legal framework pursuing a mandatory balanced presence of men and women in the corporate spheres. In addition, other countries like Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Iceland, Spain, France and Germany have followed suite and implemented gender quotas of their own. It is thus fair to say that evaluating this regulatory measures cannot be dismissed anymore with a ‘too early too call’ tag. Hence, this conference wants to promote a forum to pursue such evaluation.
The conference will also provide space for the presentation of research that can help explaining the low female presence in positions of corporate and political power.
Program Committee
Ken Ahern, University of Southern California
Manuel Bagues, Aalto University
Brad Barber, UC Davis School of Management Studies
Francesca Cornelli, London Business School
Amy Dittmar, Michigan s Ross School of Business
Espen Eckbo, Dartmouth
Daniel Ferreira, London School of Economics
Patricia Funk, Università della Svizzera Italiana
Olle Folke, Uppsala University
Mariassunta Giannetti, Stockholm School of Economics
Edith Ginglinger, Dauphine Universite Paris
Samuli Knüpfer, BI Oslo
Astrid Kunze, Norwegian School of Economics
Kai Li, Sauder School of Business
David Matsa, Kellogg School of Management Northwestern University
Amalia Miller, University of Virginia
Terry Odean, University of California at Berkeley
Paola Profeta, Bocconi
Johanna Rickne, Stockholm University/Research Institute of Industrial Economics
Paola Sapienza, Northwestern University
Joacim Tåg, Research Institute of Industrial Economics
Feng Zhang, University of Utah
Sponsors
The conference is generously funded by grants from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) and Handelsbankens Forskningsstiftelser.