In 2018, California became the first U.S. state to introduce a mandatory board gender quota for all firms headquartered … returns of -2.6% to the adoption of the gender quota for California firms and large spillover effects of -1.9% for non … non-California firms in states that followed California's legislative lead in the past by, e.g., introducing gender quota …

This paper studies whether the gender composition of recruiting committees matters. We make use of the exceptional … 1987-2006 were affected by the gender of their evaluators. We find that a female (male) candidate is significantly less …