The Compelling Case for Gender Diversity to Enhance Businesses Bottom Line

Abstract

This paper aims to study the possible relationship between gender diversity and the impact this could have for enhancement of businesses bottom line. There is compelling evidence from the literature to suggest that all else being equal women are more inclined to act ethically as opposed to men when confronted by dodgy business transactions. The suggestion that follows on from this type of ethical behaviour is that when applied consistently in similar business scenarios, will tend to have a favourable impact on a corporation’s bottom line over time. Although no empirical evidence was gathered to support this hypothesis the author would like to make the argument about a positive relationship between gender diversity and the favourable impact this would have on the corporation’s bottom line as reflected by all the standard indicators based on the available anecdotal evidence.