Chipping away at the Glass Ceiling: Gender Spillovers in Corporate Leadership
研究了美国大公司中女性董事比例对女性高管比例的正向影响，发现董事会中的女性有助于更多女性进入高管层，揭示了需求侧玻璃天花板的存在。
This paper examines the role of women helping women in corporate America. Using a merged panel of directors and executives for large US corporations between 1997 and 2009, we find a positive association between the female share of the board of directors in the previous year and the female share among current top executives. The relationship's timing suggests that causality runs from boards to managers and not the reverse. This pattern of women helping women at the highest levels of firm leadership highlights the continued importance of a demand-side “glass ceiling” in explaining the slow progress of women in business.