From “gender gap” to “glass ceiling”: A bibliometric analysis of women’s presence on corporate boards using evolution maps
This paper provides a bibliometric analysis of scientific articles addressing the topic of the presence of women on company boards. We conducted the content analysis and an evolution map of this research field on a sample of 395 articles published in Web of Science (1991-2017). Our results show that this field began with an approach focused on the gender gap from a solely comparative point of view between men and women, but has progressively evolved so that the most recent studies focus on the specific role of women given their growing relevance in the economy and society.