Women do make a difference

A STUDY by the NUS Business School's Centre for Governance, Institutions and Organisations (CGIO) investigated the relationship between board gender diversity and corporate governance score, and between these variables and financial performance, using regression models.

The results of the findings were announced last Friday at a seminar "Resolving the Performance Puzzle of Board Gender Diversity" organised by the Diversity Action Committee (DAC).

Discussions at the seminar centred around the impact of women representation in senior leadership and highlighted how to achieve a more gender diverse leadership for better stewardship and governance.

The study used a combination of publicly available data of director profiles, company corporate governance scores from the Singapore Governance and Transparency Index (SGTI) and company financial performance indicators obtained from Bloomberg.

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