Reporting requirements, Targets, And quotas for women in leadership

Leadership Quarterly

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 519-536

  Sojo, Victor E ^a,b   Wood, Robert E ^a,c   Wood, Sally A ^d   Wheeler, Melissa A ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e The University of Melbourne   (Australia)

Author keywords

Boards of directors; Gender quotas; Gender targets; Leadership; Parliament

Indexed keywords

EID: 84954289249     PISSN: 10489843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2015.12.003     Document Type: Article

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