Recent years have seen increased interest in the effect of female board members on firm performance. Despite a conventional wisdom that female board members positively impact firm performance, a thorough examination of the research to date reveals no consensus that female board members have either a positive or negative effect on firm performance. The authors of this paper build the largest dataset of Australian board appointments assembled to date. They use their data to demonstrate how difficult it is to replicate existing research, with one example from Australia and one from the United States. Using event studies and regression analyses, the authors demonstrate that there is little evidence that female board representation affects firm performance.