| Abstract [eng] |
Gender Quotas in Company Boards This paper focuses on the analysis of the legal regulation of gender quotas and the importance of balanced gender representation on company boards. Taking into account that ensuring gender balance in decision-making is one of the priorities of gender equality policy and democracy, the importance of rules governing the legal relationship between gender quotas will only increase, and with it – the legal challenges for various states. This Master Thesis consists of three main structural parts. In order to disclose which management body is subject to gender quotas, the understanding of board representation and what are the most common theories of representation is analysed in the opening chapter of the thesis. Also, a lot of attention is paid to the lack of representation of both genders on company boards, addressing gender quality issues. The concept of gender quotas, their significance for democracy and good governance, and the ways in which gender quotas are implemented are also analysed. The second chapter of the thesis analyses the legal regulation and application problems of gender quotas in different countries, as well as provides statistical data that helps to understand and evaluate the actual functioning of legal norms. After the analysis and evaluation, the peculiarities and problems of the application of national legislation are identified, and possible solutions of the problems are considered. In this part of the thesis, the analysis of the state legal regulation is aimed at revealing practices that could be applied to the formation of the governing bodies of Lithuanian companies from a gender perspective. The third chapter of the thesis, based on representation theories, examines the importance of gender representation on company boards for shareholders, stakeholders, democracy and good corporate governance and analyses the impact assessment procedure introduced by the EU. |
