This article investigates the gender diversity of the corporate board of European Union banks. Employing a large sample … board gender diversity. First, the proportion of women on the board is higher for lower-risk banks. We argue that there may …

Purpose –The purpose of this study is to investigate the association between a corporate executive’s gender and audit … fees. Based on the findings of extant research that there are gender-based differences that may have implications for the … financial reporting process, the authors posit an association between CEO gender and audit fees. Design …

-diverse boards. However, the average effect of gender diversity on firm performance is negative. This negative effect is driven by … problems the more gender-diverse the board is, and women are more likely to join monitoring committees. These results suggest … that gender-diverse boards allocate more effort to monitoring. Accordingly, we find that chief executive officer turnover …

The current paper studies the impact of board gender-diversity on firm risk-taking in a developing market. Our study is … associated with cash ratio. Second, we showed no significant relationship between gender-diversity on board and the propensity to … invest in firms with gender-diverse boards. …