Women in the boardroom: The Italian experience of law vs. embedded tradition

Roberta Provasi; Patrizia Riva

doi:10.1504/IJEBR.2015.068550

Women in the boardroom: The Italian experience of law vs. embedded tradition

Roberta Provasi
, Patrizia Riva

Department of Economics and Business Studies

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Abstract

Italy's law 120/2011 established boardroom gender quotas. Since then, an important goal has been reached: listed and state-owned companies must fulfil a compulsory percentage of women in boards of directors and in statutory boards. European standards are even more favourable in that they predict that by 2020, women must constitute at least of 40% of board memberships. This paper illustrates effects and changes of the new law for Italian companies and analyses the cultural debate that has strongly enhanced the Italian scene. Various approaches, both traditional and ground-breaking, are analysed. The paper also describes the presence of women in the boardrooms in other European countries to support a comparative analysis.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	274-291
Number of pages	18
Journal	International Journal of Economics and Business Research
Volume	9
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1504/IJEBR.2015.068550
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2015

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SDG 5 Gender Equality

Keywords

Board of directors and statutory board composition
Boardroom gender quota
Glass ceiling
Inequality
Italian experience
Law 120/2011 golfo-mosca
Lean in
Listed companies
State-owned company
Women in the board

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