Paper Title
The Impact Of Gender Diversity Of Corporate Boards On Corporate Governance: An Empirical Investigation

Abstract
In recent years, increased attention has focused on the issue of gender balance inprivate enterprise, particularly in terms of the representation of women on corporate boards of directors.However, these increased research literatures on the relationship between gender diversity and corporate governancehas produced inconclusive results. Moreover, most studies have largely failed to account for the impact of somecompounding factors, such as education level, independence, concurrent posts and seniority.Therefore, this study seeks to provide a more complete assessment of the impact of gender equality in corporateboardrooms by accounting for five female director characteristics including the number, ratio, education level,independence, concurrent posts and seniority.This paper conducts empirical investigation of 2,044 Taiwan publicly held companies. The result of multipleregression analysis shows that the number of related parties in the same company of female directors (FMBINT) hasnegative impact on firm corporate governance performance, while the number of professional concurrent posts (FMBPART) haspositive one. The empirical results produced by this paper can help companies consider related concurrent postsexperiences of female director when making board appointments. Keywords - Gender Diversity, Board of Director, Corporate Governance