Unpacking the status of token women in corporate boardrooms
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Tanusree Jain, Associate Professor in the Department of Management, Society and Communication at Copenhagen Business School, will be the guest speaker for a seminar hosted by Alan Morrison, Intesa Sanpaolo Professor of Business, Ethics, and Finance at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, and Rita Mota, Assistant Professor, Department of Society, Politics and Sustainability at Esade Business School, and an International Research Fellow at the Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation.
Abstract:
In this seminar, Tanusree will critique the existing understanding of the concepts of tokens and tokenism within the particular context of women on corporate boards.
She argues that extant tokenism scholarship tends to adopt a reductive logic that equates tokens with tokenism and numerical underrepresentation of women as an implied signal of lack of power. This tendency fails to fully reflect the latent power of tokens as potential agents of both personal and inter-group change. Integrating perspectives from socio-psychological theories, Tanusree argues that the (negative) experience of tokenism for a token appointment depends on their post-appointment outcomes. She proposes a categorisation of women directors that reflect a spectrum of differential post-appointment outcomes for token appointments arguing that while not all token women on boards are necessarily champions of diversity, they are also not necessarily reduced to experiences of tokenism.
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