value and operations, under minimal identification assumptions. We consider sharp increases in the share of women on boards … more women on corporate boards has large positive effects on Tobin´s Q and buy-and-hold returns. This result is in stark … considered firms with different pre-quota shares of women to be good counterfactuals to each other. In our data, we see that such …

Over the past year, the proportion of women serving on the executive and supervisory boards of the top 100 largest … largest insurance companies: on both executive and supervisory boards, the proportion of women has sunk to almost nine and 22 … percent, respectively. For over ten years, DIW Berlin has been investigating to what extent women are represented in the top …

Analysis of a global survey of 21,980 firms from 91 countries suggests that the presence of women in corporate … fact that women increase a firm's skill diversity. Women's presence in corporate leadership is positively correlated with … discriminatory attitudes toward female executives, and the availability of paternal leave. The results find no impact of board gender …