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EXAMINING THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN WORLD SOCIETY INTEGRATION AND LEADERSHIP GENDER DIVERSITY: A CROSS-NATIONAL ANALYSIS OF VARIATIONS IN CONSERVATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL-NGOs LEADERSHIP GENDER DIVERSITY
Washington State University
Master of Arts (MA), Washington State University
01/2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7273/000003337
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/125292
Abstract
This study examines the cross-national variations in leadership gender diversity in Conservation and Environmental Non-Governmental Organizations (CE-NGOs) and how these variations are influenced by a nation-state’ level of world society integration. Previously, researchers have employed the world society theory to explain cross-national variations of national gender- egalitarian outcomes such as national gender-egalitarian policies and improved individual gender attitudes. Although there has been previous research on the influence of world society integration on the adoption of political leadership gender quotas, there’s yet to be much research that attempts to examine the relationship between world society integration and leadership gender diversity in non-governmental organizations. The world society theory argues that a nation- state’s level of world society integration facilitates the adoption of world society scripts (e.g., gender-egalitarianism, pro-environmentalism, human rights, etc.). This study examines whether the global diffusion and subsequent adoption of gender-egalitarian norms facilitated by world society integration has any (and to what extent) influence on the leadership gender diversity in CE-NGOs. Drawing on world society theory, I hypothesize that CE-NGOs based in nation-states with greater world society integration will possess greater percentages of female representation in their leadership ranks. Utilizing leadership personnel data collected from the Encyclopedia of Association: International Organizations on CE-NGOs (n=1,039) based in 44 socioeconomically different nation-states, these hypotheses were tested using a series of regression analyses.
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- Title
- EXAMINING THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN WORLD SOCIETY INTEGRATION AND LEADERSHIP GENDER DIVERSITY: A CROSS-NATIONAL ANALYSIS OF VARIATIONS IN CONSERVATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL-NGOs LEADERSHIP GENDER DIVERSITY
- Creators
- Tinashe Chirume
- Contributors
- Erik Johnson (Advisor)Dylan Bugden (Committee Member)Julie Kmec (Committee Member)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Sociology, Department of
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Arts (MA), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University
- Number of pages
- 57
- Identifiers
- 99900652102301842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis