New EU quota for women in top positions more ambitions than Dutch one
2 years, 1 month ago

New EU quota for women in top positions more ambitions than Dutch one

NL Times  

The European Parliament approved a new quota for women in top positions on Tuesday that is somewhat more ambitious than the pre-existing quota in the Netherlands. From 2026, 40 percent of large European companies’ supervisory boards must consist of women. The Dutch quota, which took effect at the start of this year, states that one-third of large companies’ supervisory boards must be women. While countries that don’t have a quota, like Poland and Luxembourg, had little progress in getting women into business leadership positions in recent years.

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Women's Quota in listed companies having an effect: CPB
9 months, 1 week ago

Women's Quota in listed companies having an effect: CPB

NL Times  

The women’s quota for supervisory boards of listed companies in the Netherlands is having an effect. It states that at least one-third of the members of listed companies’ supervisory boards must be women, and companies must make appointments aimed at achieving this quota. Before the law was announced, less than 35 percent of listed companies had 33 percent women on …

Women battle on for equality in top business jobs
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Women battle on for equality in top business jobs

New Indian Express  

PARIS: More women are taking top management jobs but inequality persists, with men still dominating business leadership roles, research showed ahead of International Women's Day on March 8. A survey published last week by Equileap, which researches data on diversity, found only seven percent of CEOs and 17 percent of finance directors in big companies in developed countries were women. …

More women in high positions at Dutch companies; Boards of Directors lagging behind
10 months, 3 weeks ago

More women in high positions at Dutch companies; Boards of Directors lagging behind

NL Times  

The share of women in top positions of large Dutch companies increased between 2020 and 2022, but the number of women on Boards of Directors is not growing fast enough, according to the Social and Economic Council. In 2022, Dutch companies’ Boards of Directors - the executives handling the day-to-day management of a business - consisted of 14.7 percent women, …

Amsterdam's Zuidas still male dominated; Little progress in women in business leadership
1 year, 5 months ago

Amsterdam's Zuidas still male dominated; Little progress in women in business leadership

NL Times  

Despite an ample supply of candidates, leading law and accountancy firms still struggle to get women into the top of their organizations. Few women make it to partner, and men are still most often chosen to lead on the board, Financieele Dagblad reports after surveying 16 prominent firms in Amsterdam’s Zuidas. Only five firms have achieved the 30 percent female …

Glass ceiling still firmly in place in listed Dutch companies
1 year, 11 months ago

Glass ceiling still firmly in place in listed Dutch companies

NL Times  

Despite all the covenants and promises around gender equality, the glass ceiling is still firmly in place at the Netherlands' largest and medium-sized listed companies. There must be more.” The Netherlands has a “grow-in” quota for supervisory boards - if a Commissioner leaves, a woman must succeed them until at least a third of the supervisory board is made up …

More women than men appointed to supervisory boards for the first time
2 years, 3 months ago

More women than men appointed to supervisory boards for the first time

NL Times  

Dutch listed companies have for the first time appointed more women than men as supervisory directors. At the 89 listed Dutch companies, the percentage of female supervisory directors rose this year from 33 percent to 38 percent. Since Jan. 1, 2022, the legal quota of at least one third woman and at least one third men on the supervisory board …

Britain makes barely any progress increasing the number of female CEOs
3 years, 8 months ago

Britain makes barely any progress increasing the number of female CEOs

The Telegraph  

The number of women leading UK companies has barely increased over the past year, with just 6.3pc of firms run by a female chief executive. However, the UK ranks fifth among the G20 nations in terms of the proportion of women leading companies, according to data from S&P Capital IQ that canvasses almost 300,000 businesses across the globe. Felicia Willow, …

Number of women on UK boards up 50%, but parity challenges remain
3 years, 10 months ago

Number of women on UK boards up 50%, but parity challenges remain

Al Jazeera  

The number of women on the boards of directors of the UK’s 350 top publicly traded firms has jumped by more than 50 percent since 2015, but women are still underrepresented in senior executive roles. Women now hold more than a third of the seats on the boards of the United Kingdom’s biggest companies, meeting a government target set five …

The Future is Female: Norway's Wealth Fund Wants More Women on Boards
3 years, 10 months ago

The Future is Female: Norway's Wealth Fund Wants More Women on Boards

News 18  

Norway’s $1.3 trillion sovereign wealth fund, the world’s largest, wants the companies it invests in globally to boost the number of women on their boards and to consider setting targets if fewer than 30% of their directors are female, top fund officials told Reuters. “What we want to see is better representation of women on the boards,” added Carine Smith …

In Germany's Landmark Law, Large Companies Must Include Women on Their Executive Boards
3 years, 11 months ago

In Germany's Landmark Law, Large Companies Must Include Women on Their Executive Boards

News 18  

German listed companies must include women on their executive boards as part of a landmark bill agreed by the country’s coalition government Wednesday after voluntary efforts failed to close a gender gap. Just 12.8 percent of management board members at Germany’s 30 largest listed companies — those in Frankfurt’s blue-chip DAX index — are women, according to the AllBright Foundation, …

Nasdaq Takes Aim At All-White, Male Company Boards With Diversity Proposal
4 years ago

Nasdaq Takes Aim At All-White, Male Company Boards With Diversity Proposal

NPR  

Nasdaq Takes Aim At All-White, Male Company Boards With Diversity Proposal Enlarge this image toggle caption Mark Lennihan/AP Mark Lennihan/AP Nasdaq wants to require the more than 3,000 companies listed on its stock exchange to improve boardroom diversity by appointing at least one woman and at least one minority or LGBTQ+ person to their boards. "We believe this listing rule …

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