{"id":5096,"date":"2025-09-26T13:26:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T17:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/criw\/?page_id=5096"},"modified":"2025-09-29T16:45:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T20:45:23","slug":"gendering-merit-how-the-discourse-of-merit-in-diversity-disclosures-supports-the-gendered-status-quo-on-canadian-corporate-boards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/criw\/our-research\/gender-influence-on-participation-at-work\/gendering-merit-how-the-discourse-of-merit-in-diversity-disclosures-supports-the-gendered-status-quo-on-canadian-corporate-boards\/","title":{"rendered":"Gendering Merit: How the Discourse of Merit in Diversity Disclosures Supports the Gendered Status Quo on Canadian Corporate Boards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Gendering Merit: How the Discourse of Merit in Diversity Disclosures Supports the Gendered Status Quo on Canadian Corporate Boards\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Authors:<\/strong>&nbsp;Walid Ben-Amar,&nbsp;Merridee Bujaki, Bruce McConomy, Philip McIlkenny<br><strong>Publication type:<\/strong>&nbsp;Article<br><strong>Keywords:&nbsp;<\/strong>Board of directors, Gender diversity, Merit, Women on boards, Diversity disclosures, Canada<br><strong>Status:<\/strong>&nbsp;Published<br><strong>Date:<\/strong>&nbsp;2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/criw\/research-2\/academic-abstract-gendering-merit-how-the-discourse-of-merit-in-diversity-disclosures-supports-the-gendered-status-quo-on-canadian-corporate-boards\/\">Academic Abstract<\/a>&nbsp;\/&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/criw\/research-2\/how-corporations-use-merit-and-diversity-terms-to-keep-women-out-of-corporate-boards\/\">Research Highlights<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authors:&nbsp;Walid Ben-Amar,&nbsp;Merridee Bujaki, Bruce McConomy, Philip McIlkennyPublication type:&nbsp;ArticleKeywords:&nbsp;Board of directors, Gender diversity, Merit, Women on boards, Diversity disclosures, CanadaStatus:&nbsp;PublishedDate:&nbsp;2020 Academic Abstract&nbsp;\/&nbsp;Research Highlights<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":2594,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[96,93,116,91,97,87,95],"class_list":["post-5096","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","cu_page_type-bruce-mcconomy","cu_page_type-francois-brouard","cu_page_type-gender","cu_page_type-merridee-bujaki","cu_page_type-philip-mcilkenny","cu_page_type-research-library","cu_page_type-walid-ben-amar"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/criw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/criw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/criw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/criw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/criw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/criw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5097,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/criw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5096\/revisions\/5097"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/criw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/criw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/criw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=5096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}