EU revives plans for mandatory quotas of women on company boards

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European-listed firms could face fines if fewer than 40% of their non-executive board seats are taken by women

The European Union executive is reviving plans for mandatory quotas of women on company boards, amid slowing progress towards gender equality among top management.

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How are EU going to force all 44 European countries to do this when only 27 are in the EU, or did you just deliberately conflate EU & Europe again? How are EU going to accommodate Professor Hakim's finding that 1 in 7 UK women define themselves as work-orientated, vs 4 in 7 men?

Another explanation as to why Tories were so desperate to leave the EU so quickly.

Never mind the quality feel the width, it’s a stupid idea, only the Eu could consider it worthwhile.

The EU are overtly sexist.

The exact definition of 'gender discrimination'.

The man in the middle is going to try and get a peek at the breasts of the woman in black.

...Good for them ..!!!..Thank Goodness UK can now row its own boat...and appoint people on merit not gender..!!!....Can you imagine...FFS..!!!

Grateful we are not part of that outfit any longer... More women in leading positions Crazy thought. If there were more women in leading positions, we probably wouldn’t even be leaving the EU 😂😂 Thank God for good old British gender inequality 😂😂😂😂

Regardless if they are the better qualified of applicants? Seems like women are being given a leg up regardless of the competition around them which is patronising as fuck. How about starting with giving people from working class backgrounds the advantage first.

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