Female Leadership in French Voluntary Associations |
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Authors: | Lionel Prouteau Muriel Tabariés |
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Institution: | 1.LEMNA (Laboratoire d’Economie et de Management de Nantes Atlantique), IPAG, Faculté de Droit,Université de Nantes,Nantes Cedex 3,France;2.Centre?d’Economie?de?la Sorbonne-Institutions,Université Paris 1 et CNRS,Paris Cedex 13,France |
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Abstract: | Drawing on a recent national survey, this article focuses on the female representation on executive committees in French voluntary
associations. To begin with, we observe that this representation is very unequal according to the different officer positions.
It is especially low among presidents while it is markedly higher among secretaries. Then, we study the relationship between
the associations’ attributes and the likelihood of women being appointed as executive committee members. Our investigation
bears out some findings from previous studies on nonprofit female leadership. For instance, we show that the proportion of
female officers is higher in organizations whose activities pertain to social service, health, and humanitarian sectors. It
is lower in the oldest associations and it decreases as their geographical area of activity increases and as their budget
becomes larger. But we also emphasize new results. First, the probabilities that women hold president, treasurer and secretary
positions are highly correlated to each other. Second, the likelihood that associations have female presidents is higher in
associations with few volunteers. We consider possible explanations for the latter result. |
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