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 …
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, …
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 …
A new law has been in force since the beginning of 2022, stipulating there must be a “balanced composition” of men and women on supervisory boards. The VEB analyzed meeting agendas of AEX companies to assess progress in the planned changes of Executive and Supervisory Boards after the annual investor meeting and made three major observations. First, they found the …