Female finance leaders outperform their male peers, so why so few of them in academia and beyond?

  • Written by: Renee Adams, Professor of Finance, University of Oxford
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The gender diversity of thought leadership in finance is lower than in most other academic fields, our research shows. Finance ranks 132nd out of 175 fields with a representation of only 10.3% women among its thought leaders. Yet these women outperform their male peers.

How did we measure this? The impact of an academic’s ideas...

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