Abstract:This paper examines the impact of gender board diversity on firm performance for companies registered on the London Stock Exchange (LSE). The data has been collected from a unique set of 644 financial companies in the Main (MAIN) market and Alternative Investment Market (AIM) for the period 1999–2016. The firm performance has been measured using return on equity (ROE) and Tobin’s Q. The main independent variable is the female board diversity, which was distinguished into executive and non-executive females. In… Show more
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