“…Board composition is a fundamental topic in the field of management research (Gardiner, 2022;Ren and Zeng, 2022;Porcena et al, 2021;Tyrowicz et al, 2020;Li and Huang, 2019). In particular, the question of how board diversity can be increased is becoming a growing priority in the ongoing political and academic debate (Dodd and Zheng, 2022;An et al, 2021;Brahma et al, 2020;Braendle et al, 2020;Aggarwal et al, 2019). On the one hand, this is related to the increasing social awareness of diversity and equality issues (Fleischer, 2022;Kirsch et al, 2022;Huang et al, 2020).…”