CORPORATE GENDER DIVERSITY AND FIRM PERFORMANCE IN NIGERIA
Authors:
Obiora Peters Emeka
Abstract:
This study evaluated the effect of corporate gender diversity and firm performance in Nigeria. The objective of the study is to evaluate the effect of the employee, senior management and board gender diversity on firm performance in Nigeria. The objective of the study employed secondary data, which is based on an ex-post facto research design and made use of panel data set collected from fourteen (14) selected quoted commercial banks for the period of 2011 to 2018 financial period. The data collected were analyzed using a descriptive statistic, correlation matrix. The Robust Least Square Regression Analysis Techniques. Our findings align with the Social identity theory, being another explanation of why diversity may have a negative outcome. Specifically, we find that employee, senior management and board gender diversity are statistically insignificant at 0.05 to firm performance of selected quoted firms in Nigeria during the period under review. Following the findings obtained from the study, we recommend among others that tight policy attention should not be accorded to gender diversity in Nigeria.