La presenza delle donne nei CdA italiani: un confronto tra imprese familiari e non familiari

The paper investigates the presence of women in the Board of Family Businesses in Italy.
Family businesses are the most widespread type of business in the world and are characterized by
the presence of the family in ownership and management. This presence becomes the “desire to
maintain” ownership and management over time in order to achieve the typical goals that are
embedded on the relationship between family and business. We assume that the presence of
women in family businesses due to new generations with the presence of daughters or due to
marriages involving third parties in the company, could be wider than those which are not family
business. Our exploratory analysis analyzes a sample of 358 Italian companies, both family and
non-family, in their overall characteristics and, therefore, in evaluating their economic results.