Do Female Top Managers Help Women to Advance? A Panel Study Using EEO-1 Records

• Published in: The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Vol. 639; no. 1; pp. 173 - 197
• Main Authors: KURTULUS, FIDAN ANA, TOMASKOVIC-DEVEY, DONALD
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA Sage Publications 01.01.2012; SAGE Publications; SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
• Subjects: Agricultural management; Career advancement; Careers; Commissions; Discrimination; Employee promotions; Employment; Employment Discrimination; Employment statistics; Females; Gender; Hispanics; Human resources; Industry; Influence; Leadership; Management; Managers; Middle management; Occupational Mobility; Race; Recruitment; Representation; Senior management; Sex; Social sciences; White people; Women; Womens studies; Working Women; Workplaces; United States > US; diversity; promotions; gender; race; hiring; female managers; discrimination; mentoring; retention

The goal of this study is to examine whether women in the highest levels of firms' management ranks help to reduce barriers to women's advancement in the workplace. Using a panel of more than twenty thousand firms during 1990 to 2003 from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, t...