Brussels moves to get women properly on Board
The European Parliament voted this Wednesday 20th November 2013 with an overwhelming majority (459 for, 148 against and 81 abstentions) to back the European Commission’s proposed law to radically improve the gender balance in Europe’s company boardrooms.This proposal endorsed wholeheartedly by the Members of the European Parliament signals a clear line of travel for European Business, with the first of the two European Union’s co-legislators having endorsed the proposed law. It is now down to the Member States to reach agreement on the draft law, between themselves and with the European Parliament, for this draft legislation to enter the EU statute book.
The heat is now clearly on to find new board talent amongst female businesswomen and NEDs from the public and third sector.
Read the report on Women and Men in Leadership Positions, released in October 2013 by the European Commission.
And what the Davies Report had to say about the state of UK business in Davies Report 2011 and the review on the Davies Report 2 years on here.
