The purpose of this paper is to analyze the literature on Gender and Executives with the purpose of identifying lines on which future research could be directed in order to eradicate gender differences in the decision-making bodies of companies. A bibliometric study has been carried out on the Web of Science collection which, after a series of filters, has given rise to a sample of 144 articles from 1992 to 2018. The units of analysis used were keywords and bibliographic references. With this information bibliometric maps have been created applying the methodology of co-word and co-cite, clustering and visualization techniques. The results suggest that this is an emerging scientific area not yet sufficiently developed, hinting at new research related to topics such as career, gender diversity and performance, gender and leadership, organizational behavior and mobility, gender and ethics. The emergence of the concept of \"glass cliff\" has been detected in the literature analysed as a sign of the risk posed to women by the access to leadership positions.