Testing the Female Underperformance Hypothesis

By Anita Du Rietz, Magnus Henrekson. 2007

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Do Women in Top Management Affect Firm Performance? A Panel Study of 2500 Danish Firms (2006, neutral): “Du Rietz and Henrekson (2000) analyse firm performance and women on boards for a sample of Swedish firms.”
Self-employment Wealth and Job Creation: The Roles of Gender, Non-pecuniary Motivation and Entrepreneurial Ability (2002, background): “Rosa et al. (1996), Du Rietz and Henrekson (2000) , we report separate estimation results by gender.”
Female board appointments and firm valuation: short and long-term effects (2010, background): “(1997), Du Rietz and Henrekson (2000), Richard (2000), Farrell and Hersch (2005), Randøy et al.”
Women and Leadership (2017, background): “…research looking at the CEOs of small- and medium-sized firms has not found strong evidence of a female leadership advantage (e.g., Davis, Babakus, Englism, & Pett, 2010; Du Rietz & Henrekson, 2000), nor has research in China (Lam, McGuinness, & Vieito, 2013) or Sweden (Du Rietz & Henrekson, 2000).”
Self-Employment Among Immigrants in Sweden – An Analysis of Intragroup Differences (2004, background): “For a discussion of male vs. female propensity to be selfemployed, see Du Rietz and Henrekson (2000) .”