This review examines how gender diversity on corporate boards influences corporate governance outcomes that in turn impact performance. We begin with a brief discussion of the women on board and then describe extant research on the relationship of gender diversity among these areas: (1) Firm Performance; (2) Financial reporting quality; (3) Audit quality; (4) Firm risk.

Xuejian Lai. Reviews on the relationship between gender diversity and corproate governance. Academic Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences (2022) Vol. 5, Issue 9: 121-124. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJHSS.2022.050919.

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