In late 2003, Norway passed a law mandating 40 percent representation of each gender on the board of publicly limited … corporate sector and decrease gender disparity in earnings within that sector. We document that the newly (post …-reform) appointed female board members were observably more qualified than their female predecessors, and that the gender gap in …

Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to study gender diversity on the board of directors and the relation to risk …-2011. The authors then measure the effect of gender diversity on corporate performance in terms of firm risk, using the model by … Cheng (2008) which measures the variability of stock market return. Findings -The study shows that more gender diversity on …

female labor forces. We also find that the positive influence of women in top leadership positions on managerial gender … diversity diminishes over time, suggesting that women at the top play a positive but transitory role in women's career …

even a high-productivity candidate who is privately favoured by one agent, as may be the case in efforts to increase gender … or racial diversity, is less likely to be hired even when the other agent has no preference over private, non …

A growing number of studies find linkages between workforce diversity and business performance, but key aspects of this … top team diversity is amplified in the London city-region. …