Originality/value The need for more women in leadership has become a global business imperative, yet little is known about the competencies required to succeed in environments shaped by male leadershi

The gap

Consensus across the literature

Supporting evidence — 5 representative gaps

• Board gender diversity and ESG performance: The mediating role of temporal orientation in South Africa context (2024) · doi

  Moreover, while prior research indicates that directors’ decision- making evolves with their board tenure (Sun and Bhuiyan, 2020), the specific changes in decision-making processes among minority directors, such as women, as their tenure increases remain unclear.

  Keywords: directors decision making tenure prior indicates evolves board bhuiyan specific changes processes among minority women
• Gender diversity in corporate governance: a bibliometric analysis and research agenda (2021) · doi

  Originality/value From the content analysis, it is revealed that corporate governance and gender studies have predominantly investigated the gender diversity issues as a catalyst of corporate governance, with a focus on women on corporate boards and firm financial performance, risks and stock price, while the area of board gender diversity and corporate social responsibility remains relatively under-researched.

  Keywords: corporate gender governance diversity originality value content revealed predominantly investigated issues catalyst focus women boards
• Women as Senior Research Administration Managers (2010)

  However, the authors continue: Given these accomplishments, who would question whether the pipeline for women to senior leadership is lacking? While women represent just 3 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs, (2) 15 percent of board directors at those companies, (3) and less than 14 percent of corporate executives at top publicly-traded companies around the world, (4) overall they represent 40 percent of global workforces, with growth in some parts of the world projected to reach double digits.

  Keywords: percent women represent companies world authors continue given accomplishments question whether pipeline senior leadership lacking
• When Passionate Advocates Meet Research on Diversity, Does the Honest Broker Stand a Chance? (2016) · doi

  Despite advocates’ insistence that women on boards enhance corporate performance and that diversity of task groups enhances their performance, research findings are mixed, and repeated meta‐analyses have yielded average correlational findings that are null or extremely small.

  Keywords: performance despite advocates insistence women boards enhance corporate diversity task groups enhances mixed repeated meta
• A female leadership competency framework from the perspective of male leaders (2018) · doi

  Originality/value The need for more women in leadership has become a global business imperative, yet little is known about the competencies required to succeed in environments shaped by male leadership styles and the understanding that women are less capable leaders.

  Keywords: women leadership originality value need become global business imperative little known competencies required succeed environments