... to boards on bank risk lacks a consensus because of differences in proxies in measuring gender diversity (GD). This paper conducts scenarios using four GD proxies, namely, dummy, percentage of women, Blau index and Shannon index, and two insolvency risk proxies. One way to evaluate the effect of board...

... diversity of the board is measured by using Blau index. Furthermore, generalized method of moments has been adopted to analyze the effect of board gender diversity on performance of the Indian banking sector. Findings Empirical results exhibit that board gender diversity has been gradually improving...

... of a developing country such as India, so this study aims to investigate the relationship between gender diversity on board and corporate risk disclosure. Design/methodology/approach Four measures of gender diversity, i.e. BLAU index, SHANNON index, proportion of women directors on board and female dummies...