Audit quality is a much studied issue. Recently, various auditing researchers have looked at the idea that audit quality may be systematically related to the auditor being male or female. Although this seams a genuine research question, the approach adopted by these researchers (incorporating...

In a large-scale laboratory experiment, we investigate gender differences in overconfidence and risk taking. Our results show that (self-)selection and socialization can eliminate the gender difference in overconfidence, but they appear insufficient to create environments in which women are as...

This study investigates the existence of a female audit fee premium audit fees for female audit engagement partners from Belgian firms that were audited by 93 female and 599 male audit partners during the period 2008–2011. The results suggest that client firms pay higher audit fees female...

Although the proportion of women in the audit profession has increased sharply during the last quart of the 20th century, they remain to date a minority in a male-dominated profession. While an equal number of women and men have been entering the profession for over two decades, they are not...