Abstract We document that heightened public attention to gender equality is associated with an increase in board diversity. Improvements diversity are more pronounced firms a corporate culture already sympathetic equality. When increases, reach out larger pool of women, such as women without industry experience or outside their network, but female director appointments do not appear be dilutive...

Purpose This study aims to identify the main research development on board diversity and offers a quantitative synopsis of key themes contributors, knowledge gaps provides directions for further work. Design/methodology/approach Using bibliometric analysis, authors assess patterns in global based co-occurrences researchers’ keywords publication outputs 991 articles from Scopus database. Also, c...

We examine the relationship between female board representation and cost of lending, using a dataset 13,714 loans from 386 banks matched with 2432 non-financial firms 1999 to 2013. find that directors command lower loan spreads. In addition, independent have stronger impact on lowering spreads compared directors' other attributes. However, as build relationships their lenders this effect become...