Executive Gender Diversity and Corporate Social Responsibility
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2020) | Viewed by 11226
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Studies suggest that women are more concerned with other people’s welfare due to their specific role in raising children and caring to the household, whereas men need to be more assertive and independent due to their role as breadwinners. Furthermore, gender-based stereotypes put pressure on women to act in a caring way, so as not to conflict with their expected gender role.
Consistent with these arguments, studies find that women elected to public office are more likely to introduce and prioritize bills dealing with issues of women, children, and families. Increase in the number of female legislators leads to a prioritization of health care, an increase in social policy spending, and a decrease in poverty. Female legislators also insist more on health and education and clearly favor redistributive policies.
Further, women appear less likely to underestimate the effects of their decisions on the environment or to overestimate their ability to find remedial actions. In fact, surveys find that women are significantly less confident that human progress will provide technological means to address environmental challenges, which explains that they are more concerned about changing their daily habits in order to minimize their impact on the environment.
In a corporate environment, it has been shown that gender diversity improves a firm’s social performance because it helps to enhance the effectiveness of the firm’s linkages with its stakeholders and develop greater sympathy to the wider society’s concerns. Most of the studies focus on gender diversity at board level.
This Special Issue of Sustainability intends to collect an attractive set of papers on the developing topic of executive gender diversity. In particular, the selected papers should collectively contribute to demonstrate (1) whether women executives have a favorable effect on a firm’s environmental and social performance; (2) which conditions are needed for women to have a stronger effect; (3) which situations could impede their effectiveness; (4) the role of national culture in facilitating the implication of women executives; (5) whether specific CSR activities are favored by women executives; (5) whether their role has been strengthening as time has passed; etc.
The editor of the Special Issue welcomes all methodological approaches provided they are justified and aptly implemented. For instance, contributors may use case studies; qualitative analyses; single country studies regarding developed or emerging economies; as well as multicountry studies.
Prof. Pascal Nguyen
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- executive gender diversity
- social performance
- CSR
- female managers
