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STEREOTYPES AND PERCEPTIONS OF GENDER EQUALITY IN GLOBAL CORPORATIONS IN EUROPE AND THE USA – SUMMARY OF RESULTS FROM EUROPEAN COMPANIES

Part of: Human Behaviour and Design

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2020

J. Stal-Le Cardinal
J. Stal-Le Cardinal*
Affiliation:
CentraleSupélec, France
*
*julie.le-cardinal@centralesupelec.fr

Abstract

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While women are underrepresented in leadership across the industrial western world, there is a dearth of empirical evidence on how these stereotypes play out across cultural contexts, and their relative strengths. Our goal was to launch an ambitious comparative survey study of global corporations to increase knowledge on how gender stereotypes operate across cultures, and employee perceptions of gender equality in the workplace. The results provide a better understanding of the obstacles to women's professional development and identify levers for promoting gender diversity in large groups.

Keywords

complexityhuman behaviourempirical studies

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Proceedings of the Design Society: DESIGN Conference , Volume 1 , May 2020 , pp. 1561 - 1568
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