This paper investigates the impact of female chief executive officers (CEOs) on women’s representation board directors (BoD). As scholars maintain that positive effects exerted by gender diversity firms’ performance depend achievement a critical mass, we focus role CEOs as determinant number appointed women in context family businesses, exploring how persistence stereotypes, along with homosoci...

Peer-reviewed publication volume and caliber are widely-recognized proxies for academic merit, and a strong publication record is essential for academic success and advancement. However, recent work suggests that publication productivity for particular author groups may also be determined in part by implicit biases lurking in the publication pipeline. Here, we explore patterns of gender, geogra...

[Purpose] The present study assessed the effects of using an unstable inclined board on the active and passive ankle range of motion in patients with ankle stiffness. [Subjects] The study included 10 young female patients with ankle stiffness. [Methods] The patients were divided into the following two groups: a group that performed ankle dorsiflexion stretching exercises using a wooden inclined...

This study examines the situation of female directors in the top 100 UK quoted companies in the context of recent debates about occupational gender differences and the quality of corporate governance. Less than 2% of the executive directors in our sample are females and just under 9% of the non-executive directors are females. Female non-executive directors receive about two thirds the remunera...