Purpose: As more women are now being appointed to senior and top management positions and invited to sit on boards of directors, they are now directly participating in strategic company decision-making. As female directors have been found to provide new ideas, increase company competitiveness,...

Purpose: While the presence of women in the boardroom has been steadily increasing, shareholders have taken action to push firms which lag in this area to add women to their boards. The purpose of this study is to examine whether firms with more gender homogenous (i.e. male-dominated) boards...

Purpose: The authors aims to use stigma theory to predict and test a model wherein a person’s stage of pregnancy influences their workplace outcomes associated with pregnancy concealment behaviors. Design/methodology/approach: The authors tested the model using two separate survey studies,...

Purpose: How diversity in management boards affects employer attractiveness has yet to be fully clarified. This paper aims to contrast the two main theoretical rationales – similarity attraction and diversity attraction – and examines whether potential employees are more attracted to an...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of gender in the relationships between employee’s work experience and their chances of obtaining a job promotion. Design/methodology/approach: Five hundred middle to lower management Pakistan employees from service industries were...

Purpose: This study aims to examine the effects of board gender diversity on agency costs in non-financial firms listed on the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX). Design/methodology/approach: Multiple regression analysis is used to determine the impact of board gender diversity on agency cost. The...

Purpose: Women’s entrepreneurial activity can significantly impact economic and social development globally, particularly in developing countries. The significant challenges entrepreneurial women face draw the attention of researchers and policymakers. This paper aims to analyse the impact of...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to see if women value power less than men do and if MBA education reduces this gender difference in power value. Design/methodology/approach: The impact of a two-year residential full-time MBA program on students’ values was studied using a longitudinal...

Purpose: Considering the benefits that gender diversity could bring to audit firms, especially in a time when the audit profession faces criticism and the COVID-19 pandemic has widened the gender inequality gap, this study aims to explore the lived experiences of female former audit managers...

Purpose: This paper aims to examine the impact of women directors on corporate performance (CP) and the mediating role of board monitoring in their relationship. Design/methodology/approach: The ordinary least squares with panel corrected standard errors are used as a primary estimator along...