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What Board Directors Really Think of Gender Quotas

To regulate or not to regulate - that is the diversity question. It would appear that countries that have enforced gender quota's think they work well whilst those that have not, do not want to...

More than a decade ago, countries in Europe began to take measures to increase the gender diversity of their corporate boards. Norway was the first to adopt a quota for female board members (40%) in 2004. Other nations followed suit – adopting either mandatory quotas (Germany, France, Belgium, Iceland, Italy) or voluntary goals (Austria, Finland, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, the UK), with goals for female representation ranging from 25% to 40%.

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