Autori: Rinaldi, Alberto, Tagliazucchi, Giulia
Titolo: Le donne nei consigli di amministrazione delle società italiane, 1913-2017
Periodico: Quaderni di ricerca sull'artigianato
Anno: 2025 - Volume: 99 - Fascicolo: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 45 - Pagina finale: 79

Corporate elites have been male bastions until very recently and businesswomen have been very few and difficult to track. This article addresses this topic by investigating the presence of women among the directors of the top 250 Italian joint-stock companies by total assets in eleven benchmark years spanning from 1913 to 2017. The article shows a male preponderance throughout the period investigated. Women were nearly totally excluded from Italian corporate boards until the end of the 20th century and their number showed a sizeable increase only after the turn of the century. Women also occupied marginal positions in the boards: very few held multiple directorships and the first female interlocker appeared only in 1972. In a country dominated by family capitalism, for a long time the very few female directors sat on the boards of family firms and were members of the families that owned these firms. The presence of women in Italian corporate boards was boosted in recent years by the introduction in 2011 of mandatory gender quotas for listed firms and state-controlled firms. This law provided legitimacy to the appointment of women on boards also in firms that were not affected by the new regulation. The massive increase in seats held by women led to a professionalization of female directors in Italy, even though women are still largely excluded from top executive positions. The article also analyses the early role played by cooperative firms in opening boardrooms to women, even before the introduction of mandatory gender quotas for listed firms and state-controlled firms.




SICI: 1590-296X(2025)99:1<45:LDNCDA>2.0.ZU;2-T
Testo completo: https://www.rivisteweb.it/download/article/10.12830/116963
Testo completo alternativo: https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.12830/116963

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