Closing the Gender Gap: A European Perspective on New Approaches to Women’s Leadership
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Publication Date:
September 2010 -
Report Number:
A-0334-10-EA
Women account for only about 10 percent of board directors in Europe’s top 300 companies and more than two-thirds of the 101 largest firms have no women on their executive committees. With voluntary measures to close the gender gap making little progress, quotas are spreading across Europe as a means to increase women’s representation on corporate boards and executive teams.