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Companies still dragging their feet over women in top jobs


Companies still dragging their feet over women in top jobs
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Current legislation to ensure more women have seats on company boards has not worked and a quota system is the only way forward, according to a new report on female representation in top executive functions.
Last year, 67% of listed companies had not a single woman on the board of directors while over 43% of supervisory boards were male-only. Although the government has set an aim of at least 30% females at executive level, this was met by only 10% of companies.
‘We had hopes that more companies would have done something about this. But they haven’t. This is obviously not going to happen by itself’, Caroline Princen, chairwoman of the monitoring commitee, said. The committee has been in place since 2013 and reports back to the education ministry every year. ....

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