The daughter effect: do CEOs with daughters hire more women to their board?

Dasgupta, Ari; Ha, Lan; Jonnalagadda, Spurthi; Schmeiser, Steven; Youngerman, Hannah

doi:10.1080/13504851.2017.1380283

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“…Firms led by CEOs who have daughters have been shown to adopt more socially and environmentally progressive corporate policies (Cronqvist and Yu 2017). Such firms are also more likely to appoint female directors to their boards than are firms whose CEOs have no daughters (Dasgupta et al 2018). Venture capital firms led by senior partners who have daughters are also more likely to hire female partners (Gompers and Wang 2017), with positive consequences for overall firm performance.…”

Section: The Transformative Nature Of Parenthood and Other Forms Of Kmentioning

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Gendered Fitness Interests: A Method Partitioning the Effects of Family Composition on Socio-Political Attitudes and Behaviors

Brooks

2019

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Whereas most people are biologically either male or female, their genetic interests are almost never aligned with just their own sex. Drawing on the evolutionary theory of inclusive fitness gained through relatives, we suggest it is possible to partition the effects of kin on fitness into those that derive from female versus male relatives. We argue that the balance of these femaleand male-derived effects, which we call 'Gendered Fitness Interests' (GFI), might influence human behavior, especially the adoption of socio-political attitudes regarding issues with a gendered dimension. Our proposal builds on previous conjectures within evolution, as well as observations from both within and beyond the evolutionary sciences that parents' socio-political views covary with the sex of their children, and the numbers of relatives of each sex. Further, it is consistent with the relatively small average differences between women's and men's socio-political positions.Using simulated data, we outline a method for partitioning GFI, and derive the testable predictions that the GFI component of women's and men's socio-political attitudes will converge with age, and with larger family sizes. Our proposal does not replace or falsify other theories of sex differences SOCIO-POLITICAL ATTITUDES AND GENDERED FITNESS INTERESTS 2 and similarities, but it does formalize a previously underappreciated component of variance in traits and attitudes with a gendered dimension. In this respect, it may be generally useful in resolving the complex origins of gendered behavior, and the primacy of an individual's gender identification (including but not limited to biological sex) as a fixed and distinctive part of their socio-political identity. SOCIO-POLITICAL ATTITUDES AND GENDERED FITNESS INTERESTS

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Section: The Transformative Nature Of Parenthood and Other Forms Of Kmentioning

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Gendered Fitness Interests: A Method Partitioning the Effects of Family Composition on Socio-Political Attitudes and Behaviors

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2019

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“…There are several insights from our work. Firstly, we investigate laypeople instead of people of high social status, such as CEOs (Cronqvist and Yu, 2017;Dasgupta et al, 2018;Wang et al, 2019), members of congress (Washington, 2008), or judges (Glynn and Sen, 2015). This would be consequential if parental investment in sons and daughters might depend on the social status of the parent (Conley and Rauscher, 2013;Trivers and Willard, 1973).…”

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“…Assuming there is a premium from investing in sin stocks (Hong and Kacperczyk, 2009) and women are more likely to exclude them from portfolios, this would lead women to have lower returns from their stock portfolios (e.g., in pension funds, mutual funds, or stocks held directly) than men. Another example of increased sensitivity to externalities or other-preferences is the existence of a "daughter effect" in corporate decisions: firms in which the CEO has a daughter have higher corporate social responsibility scores (Cronqvist and Yu, 2017), and hire more women to their boards (Dasgupta et al, 2018;Wang et al, 2019), compared to firms in which the CEO does not have a daughter. Crucially, such effects are not related to parenting sons, suggesting that this effect is driven by the internalization of preferences of children of a different gender than that of the decision maker, and is not due to having children in general.…”

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The effect of gender and parenting daughters on judgments of morally controversial companies

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Białek²

2020

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Earlier findings suggest that men with daughters make judgments and decisions somewhat in line with those made by women. In this paper, we attempt to extend those findings, by testing how gender and parenting daughters affect judgments of the appropriateness of investing in and working for morally controversial companies (“sin stocks”). To do so, in Study 1 (N = 634) we investigate whether women judge the prospect of investing in sin stocks more harshly than men do, and test the hypothesis that men with daughters judge such investments less favorably than other men. In Study 2 (N = 782), we investigate the willingness to work in morally controversial companies at a significant wage premium. Results show that – for men – parenting daughters yields harsher evaluations of sin stocks, but no evidence that it lowers the propensity to work in such companies. This contrasts to the effect of gender: women reliably judge both investment and employment in morally controversial companies more harshly than men do. We suggest that an aversion towards morally controversial companies might be a partial determinant of the gender gap in wages.

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“…Research shows that CEOs with daughters are more likely to hire new female directors; 12 and that male chief executives with daughters are more likely to champion gender diversity. 13 The "daughter effect" applies to both male and female leaders.…”

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Overcoming Barriers to Women’s Leadership

Zhao¹

2020

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The daughter effect: do CEOs with daughters hire more women to their board?

Cited by 27 publications

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Gendered Fitness Interests: A Method Partitioning the Effects of Family Composition on Socio-Political Attitudes and Behaviors

Gendered Fitness Interests: A Method Partitioning the Effects of Family Composition on Socio-Political Attitudes and Behaviors

The effect of gender and parenting daughters on judgments of morally controversial companies

Overcoming Barriers to Women’s Leadership

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