| Author: | Bilimoria, D. Piderit, S. |
| Title: | Board committee membership: effects of sex-based bias |
| Journal: | Academy of Management Journal
1994 : DEC, VOL. 37:6, p. 1453-1477 |
| Index terms: | COMMITTEES SEX BIAS |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This study examined whether female directors lack the necessary experience-based characteristics for board committee membership, or whether there is a systematic sex-based bias against them. The authors tested predictors of the odds of membership on certain board committees for male and female directors and found evidence of sex based bias in Fortune 300 firms after controlling for directors' experience-based characteristics. Men were preferred for membership in compensation, executive and finance committees and women in public affairs committees. |
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