When women get to the head of a business, they help other women upward hierarchal mobility, with a salutary "snowball effect" on equal opportunities, as a new study by the Aarhus University shows. (Ref. 080694)
If the manager of a company is a woman, the possibility for a female executive to be promoted is twice as important as when the management is a man. This is the conclusion of a study carried out by the Aarhus Business School (Handelshøjskolen), which analyzed the careers of almost 1.200 managers from 1996 to 2003 in about 10.000 companies with more than 50 employees. For the first time, this study, the largest on this topic ever carried out in Denmark, brings to the light the impact on career and pay, of the different genders at the head of a company.
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