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With the increasing number of female senior executives, the relationship between female senior executives and corporate innovation behaviors has attracted widespread attention, but few works have studied the influences of female CEOs on innovation behaviors and their mechanisms. This paper studies the relationship between CEO's gender and the selection of corporate innovation behaviors, as well as the regulating effect of gender culture on the relationship between them. It was discovered in the studies that (1) if compared with male CEOs, female CEOs have significantly promoted both incremental innovation behaviors and radical innovation behaviors; (2) gender culture has positively regulated the relationship between CEO's gender and corporate incremental innovation behaviors, yet the regulating effect of gender culture on the relationship between CEO's gender and corporate radical innovation behaviors is not significant. Thus, the government needs to further foster a gender culture with gender equality, and actively promote the positive effect of female CEOs in corporate innovations.

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For the career development of chief executive officers (CEOs), the existing literature lacks research from the perspectives of gender and the environment. Starting with the perspective of the environment, and through the adoption of the World Bank Survey Data on Chinese Enterprises and China's Comprehensive Social Survey (CGSS), this paper addresses the question: "Why do companies choose female CEOs?" The analysis examines 15 aspects, including enterprise scale, age, industry, owner, product market, market environment, city level, etc. The research findings are as follows. (1) The corporate environment has an impact on CEO gender, and there are differences in its nature and the degree of impact. Enterprise size, state-owned shareholding, radiation effect, market environment, and gender culture have a significant negative impact on female CEOs, while product features, industry characteristics, and female owners have a significantly positive impact on female CEOs. (2) In terms of the impact mechanism, the impact of the meso-environment on female CEOs is significantly adjusted by the macro-environment. This paper extends the existing theory from the perspectives of gender and the environment. Relevant policy recommendations are proposed to provide a theoretical basis for the government to promote women's employment policies and provide effective suggestions for promoting women's career development.Sustainability 2019, 11, 4070 2 of 36 a few women have made their way to CEO, breaking through the glass ceiling. Therefore, the few women who break through the glass ceiling and become CEOs are more worthy of our research.So, from what perspective should we look at and understand the unusual behavior of companies employing female CEOs? Theoretically, the drawback of the existing theories consists of the ignorance of the impact of the company's environment. The company's workplace revolves around men, and as a result, women have to learn through socialization and adapt to the environment to meet the demand of enterprise development. Therefore, the environment is the key to understanding companies recruiting female CEOs and breaking through the existing theories. In summary, we should study the gender of CEOs from the perspective of corporate environment, namely: how does the environment affect the gender of CEOs? The answer to this question will help us better understand and evaluate female CEOs and promote sustainable enterprise development.In view of the factors affecting CEO genders, scholars have carried out research regarding women's own features [1], company characteristics [2], industry environment [3], cultural differences [4], and other different perspectives, and have drawn many useful conclusions. These studies have both strengths and shortcomings. First of all, there is a hypothesis behind previous studies that males have stronger management ability than their female counterparts. However, gender is a kind of social construction, and gender culture has a profound impact on the viewpoints toward males and female...