Company Size, Board Size and Numbers of Women Corporate Directors

Abstract

Increasing research attention has been paid to corporate boards of directors (Demb & Neubauer, 1992). Recent writing has focussed on evaluating corporate director performance (Conger, Finegold & Lawler, 1998), corporate director influences on CEO pay (Cochran, Wood & Jones, 1985) and relationships between director characteristics and company performance (Daily, 1995, Zahra & Pearce, 1989). Relatively little consideration has been given to the makeup of coprorate boards of directors particularly the low participation of qualified women serving on them (Gillies, 1992; Lorsch & MacIver, 1989).