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Re:EU to set 40% board quota for women by 2026 on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @04:49PM (#31673877)
Unfortunately this is already happening in the UK, for example: https://archive.ph/dM4D0

It really does make a mockery of the struggle women continue to have to achieve equality in this still largely male-dominated area.

Re:EU to set 40% board quota for women by 2026 on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @04:42PM (#31673765)
Hopefully they'll define this quota in terms of sex rather than gender identity. Otherwise this is a pointless endeavour.

Their press release seems to imply this will be the case but, well, you never know these days. There's a lot of confusion and contention around this issue.

Here's an interesting article about a similar consultation in the UK and its outcome, in terms of collecting statistics on the female to male ratio in boardrooms: https://sex-matters.org/posts/the-workplace/fca-women-on-cor...