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New Zealand’s boardroom blues: time for quotas

McGregor, J
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Abstract Gender inequality in boardrooms remains a stubbornly pervasive feature of the story of women in New Zealand. Despite benchmarking and monitoring, a flurry of initiatives and the introduction of policy panaceas such as gender diversity reporting, New Zealand languishes near the bottom of the rankings of similar developed countries by percentage of female corporate directors. This article addresses the research question of what strategies should be used to increase women’s boardroom representation. It is written from a human rights perspective and examines several underpinning theories of women’s demographic and substantive representation. New empirical data shows ‘soft’ strategies such as voluntary disclosure by listed companies is having limited impact in terms of either demographic or substantive representation. The article concludes by suggesting that potentially unpopular mandated quotas should be considered to cure the boardroom blues in New Zealand.
Keywords
Women’s representation; Equality; Gender diversity reporting; Women on boards; Benchmarking; Human rights; Quotas
Date
December 15, 2014
Source
Women's Studies Journal, Vol.28 (2)
Item Type
Journal Article
Publisher
Women's Studies Association (NZ)
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http://www.wsanz.org.nz/journal/docs/WSJNZ282McGregor4-23.pdf
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The Women's Studies Journal is a biannual, open access, peer reviewed academic journal established by the Women's Studies Association.

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