Oleksii V. Lyulyov, Oleksandra I. Karintseva, Andrii V. Yevdokymov, Hanna S. Ponomarova, Oleksandr O. Ivanov
Gender Impact on the Enterprise Performance
(original language – English)
https://doi.org/10.21272/mer.2019.86.06
The article describes the situation of gender equality in Ukraine and in the world during the last 5 years, identifies the leading countries in moving towards gender equality in various fields of life by analyzing the indicators of the Global Gender Gap Report of the World Economic Forum. These indicators include: Economic Participation and Opportunity, Educational Attainment, Health and Survival, Political Empowerment, which are the part of a single index that determines the position of countries in the overall ranking. Based on the results of this analysis, Ukraine has improved value of gender equality index, although in the overall ranking of countries Ukraine has lost its position and dropped 11 ranks lower than in 2014. This means that, among all the countries surveyed by the World Economic Forum, there are countries that are moving much faster towards gender equality than Ukraine. In addition, the article includes the investigation of the gender representation among the board members of 5 enterprises of Ukraine for 2014-2017, which represent the leading sectors of the Ukrainian economy. The dynamics of changes in the level of performance of these enterprises using the return on assets (ROA) indicator is analyzed, the relationship between the leadership of the enterprises and the value of the ROA indicator is graphically presented. The obtained results do not give a clear answer about the gender impact on the enterprise performance. The reason for this is a number of factors, such as: insufficient statistical sampling of enterprises; the selected performance indicator of enterprise activities does not fully reflect the impact of the gender factor on enterprise activities; the methodology used in the work needs improvements, or it is necessary to choose a totally new approach to the analysis of the investigated issue under study. Gender representation among board members and its impact on enterprise performance should be investigated further.
Key words: gender, gender equality, enterprise board members, return on assets.
Placed in №4, 2019.
Affiliations:
Oleksii V. Lyulyov, D.Sc. (Economics), Associate Professor, Head of Marketing Department, Sumy State University;
Oleksandra I. Karintseva, D.Sc. (Economics), Associate Professor, Deputy Head of Economics, Entrepreneurship and Business Administration Department, Sumy State University;
Andrii V. Yevdokimov, C.Sc. (Economics), Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Entrepreneurship and Business Administration, Sumy State University.
Hanna S. Ponomarova, first-year master’s degree student of Oleg Bala
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