Board composition and gender sensitivity approach in Italian universities

Romilda Mazzotta is an Associate Professor in Accounting and Public Accounting. She is Department Member at the Department of Business Administration and Law of the University of Calabria. Her main research interests are in the fields’ corporate governance, intellectual capital and public administration. All these arguments are pursued using both quantitative and qualitative methods. On these research themes, she has published books, book chapters, journal articles (in journals such as International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics and Journal of Management and Governance) and she has presented papers to national and international congresses.

Maria Teresa Nardo is an Associate Professor in Accounting and Public Accounting. She is Department Member at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Calabria. Her main research interests are in the fields’ sustainability and performance reporting. She is author of several articles and books on management and accounting of public and non-profit organization.

Patrizia Pastore, PhD, is Tenured Researcher in Business Administration and Accounting Studies and Aggregate Professor of Business Administration at University of Calabria (Italy), Department of Business Administration and Law. She is Member of Italian Academy of Business Administration and Management and Italian Society of Teachers of Accounting and Business Administration. Her main research interests include: female representation on corporate boards; strategic outsourcing and back-reshoring strategies; governance model and economic-financial performance of the Italian industrial districts and business networks; and commons and collective action in Italian industrial districts and business networks. She is author and co-author of several articles and books on the above-mentioned research areas and she attends as a speaker at many international conferences.

Giovanna Vingelli is a Lecturer in Sociology at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Calabria, where she teaches “Gender and Development.” Since 2011, she has been Director of the Centre of Women’s Studies “Milly Villa” (University of Calabria), and since 2017 she is Co-chair of European Association for Gender Research, Education and Documentation. Her research and publications mainly focus on theoretical and empirical analysis of gender equality policies and social movements. She has researched extensively on equal opportunities, gender budgeting, gender politics and education, and at the moment she is working on anti-feminist movements in Europe and in Italy. She has been involved as Scientific Coordinator in many European research projects on gender budgeting, gender and science, gender and education and gender violence.