@misc{10481/97103,
year = {2024},
month = {11},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10481/97103},
abstract = {Recently, women’s presence on top boards of directors has significantly increased, challenging
the long standing of male-led corporate elites. In light of the still-developing literature, this article
provides a century-long examination of women’s entry into the Spanish corporate elite, offering
several original contributions. In addition to its pioneering input into the country’s historiography,
the work uses a holistic model to introduce a comparative European approach. Moreover, it
empirically examines the significant yet previously unexplored impact of elite training institutions
on the advancement of female directors as well as their arrival through a national holding
company and their presence in leading publicly traded companies. Findings showed four distinct
stages in their trajectory: discriminatory exclusion, during the first third of the twentieth century;
exceptional inclusion, with early positions in their family-owned firms; gradual incorporation,
with increased political representation and expanded academic access in the latter decades of
the last century; and promotion, supported by twenty-first-century political strategies, while still
revealing the handicap of women’s delayed entry into the corporate network.},
publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
keywords = {corporate elite},
keywords = {women on board},
keywords = {corporate networks},
title = {Goodbye to a Historical Exclusion? The Journey of the Female Corporate Elite over a Century in Spain (1917–2017)},
doi = {10.1017/eso.2024.30},
author = {Chirosa-Cañavate, Luis and Garrués Irurzun, Josean and Rubio Mondéjar, Juan Antonio},
}