Structural equality at the top of the corporation: Mandated quotas for women directors
提出结构性平等概念，用挪威实验数据建模美国董事会，发现适度配额能让女性董事在中心性和影响力上实现平等。
We propose a concept of structural equality as a compromise between competing policy preferences of equality and individual liberty to address a stunning property of the governance of corporations, namely, the paucity of female directors on corporate boards. An argument for imposing a quota for women directors on boards is the need to disrupt structural impediments to permit endogenous mechanisms to sustain female recruitment beyond a critical mass. Using estimates from the Norwegian experiment, we apply an agent‐based model to American board data to show that modest numerical quotas generate well‐connected networks of women directors who attain equality in their centrality and influence. The analysis demonstrates the utility of computational social science for identifying policies that generate alternative and possible worlds of greater structural equality . Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.