Myths and facts about women on boards
17th December 2014, 6pm - 7.30pm
Room LG.04, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields
Renée Adams
Women in the workforce are key to healthy economies (Lagarde, 2014), but this does not mean that adding more women to the board will necessarily increase shareholder value, or that the financial crisis would not have happened if Lehman Brothers had been Lehman Sisters (Kroes, 2009). Negative stereotypes may be one reason women are underrepresented in management. Are women better served if we promote them on the basis of positive stereotypes? Or are they better served if we address the causes of their underrepresentation directly?
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