As any scientist can confirm, the fact that two events repeatedly occur at the same time does not mean that one event causes the other. Trying to explain the link is often the challenge. So it is with the perennial debate over gender diversity in corporate boardrooms. As political pressure to get more women on to boards intensifies, various statistical studies – from McKinsey to Ernst & Young– have suggested that higher female representation is accompanied by better financial and stock market performance. The question is why.
任何一個科學家都可以確認一個事實，兩件事同時發生多次，並不代表一件事是導致另一件的原因。試圖解釋兩者的聯繫往往是種挑戰。圍繞公司董事會成員性別構成的長期辯論也是如此。隨著要求更多女性進入董事會的政治壓力加劇，各類統計研究（從麥肯錫到安永會計師事務所）都顯示，女性董事比例較高的公司有更好的財務及股市表現。問題是原因何在。
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