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Female leaders and gender gaps within the firm: Evidence from three Sub‐Saharan African countries
Author(s) -
La Mattina Giulia,
Picone Gabriel,
Ahoure Alban,
Kimou Jose Carlos
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
review of development economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1467-9361
pISSN - 1363-6669
DOI - 10.1111/rode.12403
Subject(s) - demographic economics , ranking (information retrieval) , job satisfaction , inclusion (mineral) , labour economics , gender gap , empirical evidence , economics , psychology , management , social psychology , philosophy , epistemology , machine learning , computer science
We study the association between the gender of the highest‐ranking manager (the CEO ) and gender differences in employees’ outcomes using detailed linked employer–employee data from the formal sector in Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, and Senegal. Our empirical strategy relies on the inclusion of firm fixed effects and workers’ characteristics. Our results point toward a negative correlation between female CEO s and the relative wages and job satisfaction of female employees. However, female employees working under a female CEO who owns the firm are not paid less than their male colleagues.