Journal article
Bringing women on board: the social policy implications of gender diversity in top jobs
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This paper argues that analyses of the gendered character of welfare states should be broadened to include women’s share of board and executive roles, as well as the affirmative-action policies (e.g. gender boardroom quotas) that help to overcome the gender stereotypes (e.g. women are ‘nice’, men are ‘assertive’) and opaque selection procedures at the root of this. Such indicators may seem beyond the remit of social policy analysis, which is concerned foremost with the analysis of ‘social ris...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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(Accepted manuscript, pdf, 210.4KB)
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1017/S0047279419000722
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of Social Policy Journal website
- Volume:
- 49
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 744-762
- Publication date:
- 2019-10-31
- Acceptance date:
- 2019-07-27
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1469-7823
- ISSN:
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0047-2794
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- Language:
- English
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pubs:1061462
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- pubs:1061462
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1061462
- Deposit date:
- 2019-10-09
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- Cambridge University Press
- Copyright date:
- 2019
- Rights statement:
- © Cambridge University Press 2019.
- Notes:
- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Cambridge University Press at: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279419000722
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