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- Title
Why Women Say No to Corporate Boards and What Can Be Done: “Ornamental Directors” in Asia.
- Authors
Rowley, Chris; Lee, Jean S. K.; Lan, Luh Luh
- Abstract
Research indicates many women prefer being self-employed and entrepreneurs, creating value based on their personal beliefs, rather than sitting on boards as “Ornamental Directors”. Furthermore, the road to corporate boards for women has been long, tortuous, and bumpy, but needlessly so. Several theoretical explanations have been suggested for this situation, often with overlap and similarities. However, we believe that in other barriers are due to poor ‘signaling’ of success for female directors and structural issues. The messaging comes in the form of networks and nomination process bias, role model and mentor shortages, work–family balance, legal ambiguity, policies, and cognitive behavior. This leads to what we call the “Ornamental Director” syndrome.
- Subjects
WOMEN directors of corporations; GENDER inequality; WOMEN executives; FAMILY-work relationship; WORK-life balance; BUSINESS mentorships
- Publication
Journal of Management Inquiry, 2015, Vol 24, Issue 2, p205
- ISSN
1056-4926
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1056492614546263