This paper examines how board gender diversity affects corporate risk disclosure. We exploit an exogenous shock on … in concurrent studies. The findings suggest that board gender diversity is positively related to corporate risk … consistent with board gender diversity promoting the disclosure of decision-relevant information through improved board group …

diversity and women’s presence on boards of directors, legislative efforts have enacted gender quotas. We examine how such …

the positive impact of females’ economic and political empowerment on increasing gender diversity of corporate boards …-range theory about how female empowerment and national culture shape gender diversity on corporate boards around the world. With … dimensions. Our findings contribute unique insights to research focused on board gender diversity as well as provide information …

management gender diversity is driven almost entirely by women in non-executive, rather than executive, board positions …

hypothesize and empirically test the relationship between board gender diversity (BGD) and the readability of narrative disclosure … relationship. Finally, I find that although gender discrimination in the appointment of directors spurs complex readability, the … BGD-readability relationship is consistent in gender-biased and non-discriminant firms. I also check the robustness of our …

Prior research on the impact of mandatory quotas in one dimension of diversity, on other dimensions, shows … processes in hiring. In the context of a law mandating a gender quota on Indian boards, we predict and find that boards respond …

and level of cybersecurity disclosure and board gender diversity. However, the board must boast a critical mass of at … gender diversity by adding the concept of the positive influence of heterogeneity on cyber disclosure. We also augment the … how the board’s gender composition can influence the extent of such disclosure, based on a sample of the companies listed …

Although we can observe noticeable progress in gender diversity on corporate boards, these boards remain far from … the presence of multi-board women and other women on management boards is positively related to gender diversity on boards … gender balanced. Our paper builds on social identity theory to examine the impact of corporate elites—men and women who sit …