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Advancing Legal Research on Gender Diversity in Chinese Corporate Leadership
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Abstract
At present, with the development of economic globalization, in order to create a better business environment and improve the efficiency of enterprises, the optimization of the gender structure of enterprise leaders has increasingly become our new focus of attention. The leadership composition of Chinese enterprises, whether state-owned or private, is still predominantly male, with significantly fewer female leaders than male. With relatively balanced education levels, women still seem to be excluded from the core power of management for some implicit reasons, making it difficult for them to participate in major decisions in an equal capacity. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the obstacles to women's access to leadership positions in enterprises and to propose legal regulation ideas for gender equality in China's workplace and the optimization of the gender structure of corporate leadership.
Keywords
gender equity, female leader, diversity, board structure, corporate law
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- Volume Title
- Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Business and Policy Studies
- ISBN (Print)
- 978-1-915371-45-4
- ISBN (Online)
- 978-1-915371-46-1
- Published Date
- 13 September 2023
- Series
- Advances in Economics, Management and Political Sciences
- ISSN (Print)
- 2754-1169
- ISSN (Online)
- 2754-1177
- DOI
- 10.54254/2754-1169/9/20230363
- Copyright
- 13 September 2023
- Open Access
- This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited