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Please join us for the Keynote Address presented by Professor Sandy Black (University of Texas) on the impact of women on corporate boards. Intended for a general audience, all students, faculty, and staff are welcome. Details and Registration follow below.
Tuesday, May 28th, 2013
IC220 4:15 - 5:15 PM
Reception to Follow in IC Atrium
To register, please click here.
Registration Closes Thursday, May 23rd, 2013
The Department of Management kindly thanks the Dean's Office at UTSC and the Master of Management Innovation program at UTM for their generous support of our 2013 conference.
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Despite significant labour market progress over the last decades, women are still heavily underrepresented in top occupations, particularly corporate jobs and in the political arena. This is true in most developed and developing countries. With the concern that market forces will not remedy this situation in a timely manner, a number of countries have implemented or proposed a mandatory quota on the proportion of women on boards of directors. Norway was the first, with a quota mandating 40% representation by each gender of the board of directors passed in 2003.
Since that time, Spain, Iceland, Finland, and France have all passed similar reforms. Early evidence from Norway suggests that firms do comply with these laws, and board composition does change (Ahern and Dittmar 2010). However, the question of the effectiveness of the laws remains.
Do these laws achieve their goals of improving equity in the labor market? This lecture will address this issue, highlighting the existing work on the role of legislation in promoting women at the top and describing what we need to think about going forward.
Sandy Black Professor of Economics, University of Texas |
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Sandra Black currently holds the Rapoport Chair in Economics at the University of Texas at Austin. She received her B.A. in economics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1991 and her Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1997. Prior to her position at UT Austin, she was a Professor of Economics at UCLA and worked as a Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Her research focuses on the effect of family background and childhood experiences on the long-run outcomes of children. She also examines the role of gender in the labor market. She has published in most of the major general interest journals and all of the major journals in the fields of labor and education. Black currently serves as the Editor of the Journal of Human Resources and is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and IZA. |
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