Gender in Governance: Essential or Outdated? A Bibliometric Analysis

This study analyses whether gender research in corporate governance is still relevant. This paper presents a comprehensive literature review that focuses on the role and existence of gender in corporate governance through various global perspectives published in reputable international journals until 2024. Vosviewer software was used to analyze the data after the author used a variety of literature review approaches, such as content analysis to examine previous research. The collected manuscripts comprise 2500 papers published from 2014 to 2024, categorized into various research topics. The results of data mapping show that the topics have been widely researched are gender, education, woman, leadership, diversity, firm and performance in the 2021-2022 period. Meanwhile, research topics likely to be future research opportunities are gender equity, violence, discrimination, empowerment, degree, SDGs, government, and household.