The paper explores the impact of the gender composition of Boards of Directors on gender diversity and earnings gaps … positive spillovers on the gender gaps within the firms. Quality is viewed as the power, conceptualized as the possible … negative impact. However, male directors' connections to females positively decrease the gender gaps. Interestingly, the …

introduction of the law, in a difference-in-differences specifi- cation. We find that the imposition of the gender quota only … characteristics other than gender. …

significantly under-represented on bank boards in most countries, these results argue for policies to promote gender diversity of …This paper examines the effect of executive board gender diversity on the relationship between economic policy … uncertainty (EPU) and bank liquidity hoarding (LH). We focus on the Russian banking sector, which, relative to most of the world …