Do Women Executives Make Workplaces Safer? Evidence from Workplace Safety Violations
研究了企业高管团队中女性占比与工作场所安全违规之间的关系，发现女性高管越多，安全违规越少，且这一关系受董事会性别多样性和机构投资者所有权影响，员工工作量起部分中介作用。
Abstract In this study, we develop and test theory on whether , when , and how the prevalence of women in firms’ top management influences workplace safety – an important ‘do no harm’ dimension of corporate social performance. Consistent with our theorizing, we find that there is a negative relationship between the prevalence of women executives in firms’ top management and workplace safety violations. We show that the relationship is amplified by board gender diversity and ownership by institutional investors who advocate for greater gender diversity in firms’ upper echelons. We also show that the relationship is partially mediated by employee workload. Our findings have important implications for the management literature on the gender profile of firms’ top management and for the workplace safety literature.