The impact of female directorship on firm performance in Malaysia / Noor Zaliena Ghazali

This research conducted to investigate the effect of female directorship and firm performance based Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange evidence in 5 years period from 2013 to 2017. Gender board diversity is where in this research mainly calculate the number of women on board in the selected company purposely to see the firm performance based on calculating and theory which as for calculating will use Return on Asset as for see the asset in the company by the female directorship and Return on Equity is to see the ownership of the female directorship. Also,to strengthen this finding, Non-executive director, and number of board od director are used to see the result. As for theory, in this research are using Agency Theory. Hence, the difference between female directorship and accounting performance measures lays on the fact that in its determination efforts are made to consider the expenses of all financial resources.