Seminar Gender Behavior and Decision-Making, with Renée Adams

The next session of the seminar “Gender, Behavior and Decision-Making” will take place on Tuesday the 3rd of December from 5 pm to 6 pm online (Teams). 
We will have the pleasure to listen to Renée Adams who will present “Divergent Women (and Men)”.

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Renée Adams is a Professor of Finance at Said Business School, University of Oxford. She is an expert on corporate governance, bank governance and gender. Her work has a strong policy orientation and draws on economics, finance, management and psychology. Professor Adams’ interest in diversity is not limited to research.  She co-founded AFFECT, the American Finance Association’s committee for women, in 2015 and chaired it until 2020.

Abstract 

I combine ideas and data from different papers to highlight the importance of selection for preferences and stereotypes. Using data on the general population, finance academics, CFAs, and directors, I show that preferences vary across occupations. As a result, gender gaps in preferences may also vary across occupations. Using the financial crisis and the sustainability movement, I illustrate why understanding selection matters.

About the Women & Science Chair   
 

The Women and Science Chair at Université Paris Dauphine-PSL, created with the support of the L’Oréal Foundation, the Generali Foundation, La Poste, and the Talan Group, seeks to engage and foster interdisciplinary approaches to analyzing the causes and consequences of the underrepresentation of women in careers in scientific research and academia. The Women and Science Chair is member of the UNESCO chairs network.

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