A Comparison of Gender Diversity in the Corporate Governance Codes of France, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom

Sustainability, Sustainable Finance, Good Governance Codes and Gender Diversity. A Literature Review.

“…Other aspect that is take account the number of board meeting and the important role of the general shareholder meetings and favored the disclosure of information on management remuneration and offered recommendations on the communication of financial information. The [251] keep the same line of previous report and emphasize the present a greater independence of the corporate board, higher degree of formalization and information divulgation concerning to the board of directors. In 2003, French Association of Large Companies (AFEP) and the Movement of the Enterprises of France (MEDEF)) code combined these three reports and published the corporate governance code of listed corporations, based on "comply or explain" the principles.…”

Women on boards and firm performance

“…The new Dutch Corporate Governance Code from January 2009 includes this objective. A comparison with four other European Corporate Governance Codes (Lückerath-Rovers 2010) showed that France, Germany and the UK also do not include demographic characteristics of directors (including gender) in their corporate governance codes. In Spain, however, both a law is installed that obliges companies to adopt a more balanced composition of the board as the corporate governance code especially addresses the issue.…”

Directors' Observable Characteristics and Firms Performance in Nigeria: A Panel Analysis

“…Several studies are conducted to determine the bexus between board women and company performance but findings of those studies are mixed. [24]; Luckerath-Rovers [26] found a positive significant nexus between women directors and performance of organization. Smith et al [27] found significant effect of girls board membership on firm performance.…”