Short shrift for Women in Boardroom 2.0
Posted by Bernie Ritchie on Aug 07, 2009

Depressing news this morning. Almost unbelievable in these progressive but turbulent times where some sense of gender equality prevails, at least until today! The latest hot news from the London School of Economics is the extraordinary revelation that wherever gender composition of today's Boards is biased in favour of women, findings of a freshly published Report show that "the average effect of gender diversity on firm performance is negative".

"It's a complicated picture", one of the Report's authors Dr Daniel Ferreira tells us with poignancy! Going on to say, possibly somewhat hurriedly, "clearly, the message is not that we need less women on boards". At least, thank goodness, the co-author of the Report - ‘Women in the Boardroom and their impact on Governance and Performance' - Professor Renee Adams from the University of Queensland is a woman. She does not seem to get a chance to comment on the report in the LSE press release though. Perhaps this is because she would impose a negative effect on its impact?!

Essentially, the crux of the Report is that women Board Members are better at monitoring-related subjects than men. But less good at such tough cookie subjects as compensation committee participation. Happily though, the greater the fraction of women on the Board, the better the attendance of male directors! Not such good news is the declaration that "firms with proportionally more women on their boards are less profitable and have a lower market value".

So, what to make of all that?! In a cryptic final statement Dr Ferreira advises - "we can see that when you meddle with boards, there may be unintended consequences"! Luckily, the FT's Management Blog commenting on the same subject this morning does guide us to the recent but differing viewpoints on the same broad subject from its own Lucy Kellaway and Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, author of the book "Women mean Business".

What's your view on gender dynamics in Boardroom 2.0?!

Posted by Sharon Roche on Aug 07, 2009
Interesting about women in management - currently under attack for working at the expense of their families (or at least this is where the pendulum swings this week; not long ago it was all 'you can have it all' and the positive effect of women in senior management positions)- having higher board attendance. One suspects this makes more males attend to ensure they retain influence/dominance in decision-making. But does this mean that men are less worried about other men making decisions in their absence than they are about women making the decisions? I wonder if reasons for this were probed in the research. The covering press release, as Managmentsushi suggests, wimps out, clearly not wanting to be seen as non-PC enough to directly state that women on the board (as a rule) is seen as negative in many quarters. Some of the comments are condescending - as if to appease the 'girlies' who, despite having achieved some extremely senior business positions, are obviously considered by the LSE's Dr Ferreira as not being tough enough to face negative remarks. Mind you, if anyone truly believes that women have achieved equality in the City, they really are fooling themselves!

Posted by Rita Schiano on Aug 08, 2009
Having women on corporate boards often broadens the conversation regarding substantive issues often dismissed by corporate boards of directors historically been composed of white males. Women assimilate differently; they tend to listen more, view problems experientially,and seek solutions outside the "it's always been done this way" mentality.

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