Women in Leadership

Today Overperforming but Often Undervalued
Women have made great headway in today’s world.
However, equality not yet there. Women are not fully represented both in the boardroom and in senior leadership roles; female leaders are reflected in better financial outcomes.

Presence of women in corporate leadership positions may improve firm performance, reflecting either nondiscrimnating payoff or skill deiversiy increasing.
Women’s presence in corporate leadership is positively correlated with firm characteristics such as size as well as national characteristics such as girls’ math scores, the absence of discriminatory attitudes toward female executives, and the availability of paternal leave.

The results find no impact of board gender quotas on firm performance, but they suggest…