Professor David Matsa of Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and Professor Amalia Miller from the University of Virginia studied the impact of gender quotas for corporate board seats on corporate policy decisions. They looked at Norway's 2006 decision to require at least 40 per cent of directors of listed companies to be women, comparing affected firms to other Scandinavian public and private companies that were unaffected by the rule. The researchers found that firms affected by the quota undertook fewer workforce cuts than comparison firms, increasing rel...