Women and men as board chairpersons: Their acceptance/rejection of eighteen expectations described in the nonprofit literature
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2013
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Journal for Nonprofit Management
Abstract
This article reports on the findings of a survey conducted to determine whether male and female board
chairpersons’ accept or reject the board role expectations as expounded in the nonprofit normative and
analytic literature. The roles and responsibilities and popular “do’s and don’ts” that populate the
literature were synthesized into eighteen role expectations. Ninety-nine (46 female and 53 male) nonprofit
board chairpersons completed an online 30-item questionnaire designed to ascertain their level of
agreement about adhering to the 18 expectations. Board chairpersons’ agreements with the 18
expectations were analyzed using analysis of variance. Two findings from this study are especially
intriguing: when male board chairpersons receive assistance from their executive directors, they are more
apt to agree with the expectations culled from the nonprofit board literature. In contrast, women board
chairpersons prefer to achieve the expectations without any help.
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non-profit, nonprofit, research, board of directors, roles, expectations, survey
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Block, S. R., & Rosenberg, S. A. (2013). Women and men as board chairpersons: Their acceptance/rejection of eighteen expectations described in the nonprofit literature. Journal for Nonprofit Management, 4, 33À45.