Laurent Picard Distinguished Lecture: Renée B. Adams
Divergent Women
Presented by Renée B. Adams
Professor of Finance
Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
Date: Friday, February 26, 2021
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
About the Topic:
Robert Frost’s famous poem “The Road Not Taken” asks us to consider the consequences of choosing among divergent paths. In this lecture, I discuss some implications of taking “the road less travelled” for women. Using data on human values ranging from academics to corporate directors, I show that women who choose careers in which they are underrepresented are significantly different from women who choose other careers. As a result, differences between men and women depend on the path they have chosen. I invite the audience to reflect on the implications of choices for our understanding of stereotypes and diversity.
Short Bio:
Renée B. Adams is a Professor of Finance at Said Business School, University of Oxford. She is a Fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute and a Senior Fellow of the Foundations of Law and Finance Research Center at Goethe University and the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research. She is an expert on corporate governance, bank governance and gender. Her work has a strong policy orientation and draws on economics, finance, management and psychology. She co-founded, AFFECT, the American Finance Association’s committee for women in 2015 and chaired it until 2020.
