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Women’s corporate roles still lag in EU

Mandatory quotas being considered

By Gabriele Steinhauser

 |  Associated Press  

  March 06, 2012

The European Union is moving closer to introducing mandatory quotas for the number of women on company boards after businesses failed to make sufficient progress in gender equality over the past year. The EU’s Justice Commissioner, Viviane Reding, said Monday that at the current rate it would take more than 40 years for women to hold 40 percent of board positions in Europe’s publicly traded companies.

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