Gender board diversity across Europe throughout four decades.
Journal
Scientific data
ISSN: 2052-4463
Titre abrégé: Sci Data
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101640192
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
31 May 2024
31 May 2024
Historique:
received:
11
12
2023
accepted:
22
03
2024
medline:
1
6
2024
pubmed:
1
6
2024
entrez:
31
5
2024
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
We present a Gender Board Diversity Dataset (GBDD), which provides a cross-country perspective on women in management and supervisory boards that spans between 1985 and 2020. The data covers 43 European countries and accounts for private companies in addition to the stock-listed ones. GBBD was created using firm-level Orbis data. Our measures are based on a sample of more than 28 million unique firms observed for nearly seven years on average and reporting data about nearly 59 million individuals on management and supervisory boards. We provide the measures at the level of industry, country and year (firm-level data is proprietary). We provide three measures. The first is the share of women among all board members in a given industry, country, and year. The second one is the average of the shares of women across firms in a given industry, country and year. We also provide a new measure: the share of firms in a given industry, country and year which report no single woman on their board(s).
Identifiants
pubmed: 38821982
doi: 10.1038/s41597-024-03181-8
pii: 10.1038/s41597-024-03181-8
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Dataset
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
567Subventions
Organisme : Narodowe Centrum Nauki (National Science Centre)
ID : 2019/34/H/HS4/00481
Organisme : Narodowe Centrum Nauki (National Science Centre)
ID : 2019/34/H/HS4/00481
Organisme : Narodowe Centrum Nauki (National Science Centre)
ID : 2019/34/H/HS4/00481
Informations de copyright
© 2024. The Author(s).
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