discriminatory attitudes toward female executives, and the availability of paternal leave. The results find no impact of board gender …

This paper studies economic effects of the gender composition of corporate boards, employing a new and unique …. Using multiple identification approaches, alternative measures of gender diversity, and several performance indicators, we … find some evidence that companies with gender-diverse boards have higher market values and better profitability. These …

advanced and emerging European economies. We demonstrate that gender board diversity has generally increased, yet women remain … demonstrate that few systematic factors are associated with greater gender diversity for both supervisory and management boards … negative correlation to a supervisory board, or vice versa. We interpret these findings as evidence that country-level gender …