Hi,

There are quite a few literature that explain relationship between gender diversity and women productivity. Here, I'd attempted to attach some publications (links and pdfs) which focus on climate change adaptation, agricultural and horticulture production in relation to gender diversity:

Gender and race/ethnic composition of technical work groups: Relationship to creative productivity and morale Article Gender and race/ethnic composition of technical work groups:...

The role of gender in team collaboration and performance Article The Role of Gender in Team Collaboration and Performance

Gender diversity within R&D teams: Its impact on radicalness of innovation Article Gender diversity within R&D teams: Its impact on radicalness...

Best wishes.

It would, if it is a natural progression. Diversity, in general, is useful because it provides a lot of viewpoints and allows for better evolution of the system. However, if it is a forced progression, selecting women over those most qualified, then it could actually reduce productivity.

It would, if it is a natural progression. Diversity, in general, is useful because it provides a lot of viewpoints and allows for better evolution of the system. However, if it is a forced progression, selecting women over those most qualified, then it could actually reduce productivity.

Dear Sir,

Thanks @Olawale for sharing literature. As @Daniel I agree that gender diversity can constituate a range of viewpoint, who best can understand women's issues apart a woman.

Yannick Fosso Djoumessi, you ask "who best can understand women's issues apart [from] a woman. To that I would respond with the following: an expert on the socioeconomic issues involving women. Being a woman does not necessarily make someone an expert on the issues that women face, or how to deal with them, any more than being a cancer survivor makes a person an oncologist.

There is no doubt that any form of diversity - gender, race, ethnicity, age, etc. can only contribute and add to productivity as well as innovation. Research has shown that more homogeneous a group is in terms of its characteristics (gender, race, etc) the more group-think it would result in leading to less number of ideas, innovation and productivity. All forms of diversity should be openly welcomed, cherished and encouraged.

Hi @Srini,

Thanks for your answer, I definitely follow you up. But range of viewpoint are the only consequences of gender diversity?? And how are they going to precipitate productivity??... we view productivity as efficiency gains...

It is widely recognised that teams and organisations in all sectors of society perform better and make better decisions when they embrace diversity and inclusion in their culture and, particularly, among their leadership. COPE would now like to develop a discussion document on diversity and inclusion in research publishing that is relevant to all stakeholders ...

https://publicationethics.org/forum-discussion-topic-comments-please-12

Yes I also agree.

Participation of both males and females in decision making will increase productivity as both the genders have different views and ideas at various fields which can be used for increasing productivity.

Thanks @Ljubomir Jacić and @Sandhyarani for your comments, I do follow you up. We have some concretes examples of that, bu actually only few of them really succeed in increasing productivity...

When I worked as maintenance manager, I had the chance to increase gender diversity in my team up to 30%, and I could easily see positive changes on team behavior, increased focus, more creativity, professional collaboration, and later in the weeks we could already see improvement on KPI. Different thinking, not only genders help the grupos to evolve, but diversity does not work without inclusion.

The study reveals a sizable gender gap in labor productivity, with women-run businesses being about 11 percent less productive than men-run businesses. In other words, an extra worker in a women-run business generates about 11 percent less profit than an extra worker in a male-run business...

Unlike other studies, this gender gap does not decrease when controlling for a range of firm characteristics, including the broad sector in which the business operates. This suggests that gender gaps in labor productivity are not driven primarily by differences in other observable enterprise characteristics...

https://blogs.worldbank.org/developmenttalk/exploring-labor-productivity-gap-between-businesses-run-women-and-men#

very Excellent work .

Yes, I agree with the question by Dr Yannick Fosso Djoumessi

I recently added a Medscape perspective for another RG question, regarding women. I apologise for repeating this for another thread, but thought that it was relevant:

"'Largest Study Yet Confirms that Women Are More Empathic'

https://www.medscape.co.uk/viewarticle/largest-study-yet-confirms-women-are-more-empathic-2022a10029cr?sso=true&impID=5044387&uac=112868PY&src=wnl_tp10_daily_221229_MSCPEDIT

I had always suspected this, so found this finding justified what I previously felt!"

This is the RG reference:

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Do_you_know3#view=63b99bd8ff3b94ae5500c9b3