Does gender diversity improve the performance of a company?

Despite the intuitive appeal of the argument that gender diversity on the board improves company performance, research suggests otherwise. read more

Performance of a company has nothing to do with gender, but everything with merit. Only people who are capable of doing the job should be hired regardless of the gender. Socially engineering to fit some gender diversity criteria is not going to improve performance. read more

The argument that gender diversity on the board will improve company performance rests on the assumption that the addition of one or more women to an all-male board will increase the board’s “cognitive variety” because women — the argument goes — differ from men in their values, experiences, and knowledge. read more

In the United Kingdom, greater gender diversity on the senior-executive team corresponded to the highest performance uplift in our data set: for every 10 percent increase in gender diversity, EBIT rose by 3.5 percent. read more