Does Board Gender Diversity Have a Financial Impact? Evidence Using Stock Portfolio Performance

By Larelle Chapple, Jacquelyn E. Humphrey. 2013

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Female audit committee members and their influence on audit fees (2018, neutral): “Using U.S. data, Carter et al. (2010) also find no evidence to link board gender diversity with financial performance, and Chapple and Humphrey (2014) arrive at a similar result examining board gender diversity in their Australian study.”
Diversity improves performance and outcomes. (2019, background): “At a higher level of analysis, a market-wide assessment of Australia S&P 300 companies measured the impact of industry-average board gender diversity on the financial performance of entire portfolios of companies.(14) While this study found no evidence of positive returns from gender diversification”
Corporate governance and dividend pay-out policy in UK listed SMEs: The effects of corporate board characteristics (2017, neutral): “…and gender), this study focuses only on gender diversity aspect of the board for two reasons: (i) gender diversity aspect has been widely investigated (Chapple & Humphrey, 2014; Nguyen & Faff 2007; Julizaerma & Sori 2012; Ntim, 2015); and (ii) this aspect can be measured easily (Ntim, 2015).”
Board diversity and firm performance: evidence from the U.K. SMEs (2017, background): “This explains what has been described as ‘growing regulatory pressure on firms worldwide to address the under-representation of women in senior positions’ (Chapple and Humphrey 2014, 709).”
Female board directorship and firm performance: What really matters? (2018, neutral): “Finally, e consider the Industry Classification Benchmark (ICB) used by uronext since 2006, because the relationship between gender diersity and firm performance may not be stable across industries Chapple and Humphrey, 2014 ).”
Corporate governance: the impact of director and board structure, ownership structure and corporate control on the performance of listed companies on the Ghana stock exchange (2016, background): “Gender diversity on board is a highly debated topic, which has received a tremendous amount of attention of policy makers, researchers and shareholders (Chapple and Humphrey 2014).”