Studying Gender Diversity

DNA Based Techniques for Studying Genetic Diversity

Genetic diversity is a study undertaken to classify an individual or population compared to other individuals or populations. This is a relative measure, as the distance between any pair of entries in the study is greater or lesser depending on all pairwise comparisons that can be made in the study. However, genetic fingerprinting is the unambiguous identification of an individual (based on the...

Does Gender Diversity Promote Nonconformity?

Failure to express minority views may distort the behavior of company boards, committees, juries, and other decision-making bodies. Devising a new experimental procedure to measure such conformity in a judgment task, we compare the degree of conformity in groups with varying gender composition. Overall, our experiments offer little evidence that gender composition affects expression of minority...

Gender Diversity in the Boardroom

This paper documents several significant correlations between the variability of stock returns, the structure of director compensation and the gender diversity of corporate boards. In a crosssectional sample of boards of directors of 1024 publicly traded firms in fiscal year 1998, we find three robust results: (1) firms facing more variability in their stock returns have fewer women on their bo...

CGIAR GENDER AND DIVERSITY PROGRAM EXECUTIVE SELECTION IN THE CGIAR Implications for Gender and Diversity

Gender Diversity among Higher Education CIOs