Gender Diversity in Boards of Directors: A Bibliometric Mapping

The literature on gender diversity in boards of directors has expanded significantly recent years, due to the fact that women are increasingly holding higher management positions within company hierarchy, clearly demonstrating certain characteristics have a positive impact different areas company. objective this paper is analyze scientific articles presence directors, based review, order learn about evolution concept over time. search conducted for produced 300 documents from Web Science, with final total result 168 after passing initial results through various filters. VOSviewer software was used information, which enabled creation bibliometric citation, co-citation and co-word maps. reveal most relevant authors studies subject identify current studies, main topic deals sustainability corporate social responsibility, addition highlighting vital importance context: empathy, open innovation, concern needs interest groups heightened perception risks.