<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/about/newsroom/business-today-does-board-gender-diversity-curb-ceo-pay-ratio.cfm" dsn="blogs"><featured/><pubDate>09/29/2025</pubDate><title>Does Board Gender Diversity Curb CEO Pay Ratio? New Research Provides Clarity. </title><description>On Sept. 26, 2025, Dong Chen, associate professor of finance had a post titled "Gender-Diverse Boards May Reduce CEO Pay Ratio" published on the Columbia Law School's Blog on "Corporations and the Capital Markets." This UBalt post is a recap of that.  
			, </description><author>Business Today</author><image><img src="https://www.ubalt.edu/about/newsroom/assets/images/2000x1500-female-AdobeStock_874205933.jpg" alt="an image of a businesswoman in a black shirt"/></image><image-cap/><quote/><quote-name/><quote-info/><tags><tag>Faculty: Dong Chen</tag><tag>Merrick School of Business</tag></tags></item>