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Selon Forbes, le mouvement pour réglementer le % de femmes sur les Boards semble prendre de la vigueur en Europe. Après la Finlande, la Suède et la France, l’Allemagne semble également prendre cette direction. Cet article a été partagé par Richard Leblanc.
Germany is seriously considering the imposition of corporate gender quotas, with Labor Minister Ursula von der Leyen saying that she’s “completely convinced” German corporations will never reach gender parity unless legally forced to do so.
According to the Atlantic, Social Democrat Andrea Nahles has also come out in favor of quota laws, while a “working draft” of what regulations might look like is said to be knocking around the Family Ministry.
The Atlantic quite correctly notes that quotas are unthinkable in the United States where the Supreme Court has found them to be unconstitutional in public universities seeking a diverse student body.
And Germany is more women-deficient that the U.S. Our female corporate leadership hovers around 15% while Germany’s DAX companies log in at a shameful 3.7%.
Still, Europe is fast outpacing the U.S. in the representation of women on its Boards of Directors, with one out of four board members in Sweden and Finland being female and France clocking in at 40% after the French National Assembly passed a law imposing gender diversity quotas. (see U.K. report Getting the Right Women on Board).
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