Including women in corporate boardrooms does more than diversify leadership—recent research shows it can also lead to safer job sites, potentially saving companies from costly safety incidents.

Companies with more women on their boards tend to have fewer workplace safety incidents—especially when these women hold positions of power within the board, according to an analysis of workplace safety at 266 companies between 2002 and 2011. These findings were published in April in the Journal of Operations Management. Click here to read the full text article