{"id":166,"date":"2015-04-14T17:24:45","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T21:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/law-and-policy\/?p=78"},"modified":"2024-01-30T15:49:32","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T20:49:32","slug":"gender-quotas-for-corporate-boardrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/public-safety-policy-legal-studies-educational-information\/gender-quotas-for-corporate-boardrooms\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethical discussions: gender quotas for corporate boardrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Gender quotas in corporate boardrooms &#8211; an increasing trend<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On March 6, 2015, Germany passed a law\u00a0 that will require companies to give 30 percent of the seats on their corporate boards to women starting next year. In recent years, there has been a trend in European legislatures to pass laws requiring greater representation of women in corporate boardrooms.<\/p>\n<p>According to an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/03\/07\/world\/europe\/german-law-requires-more-women-on-corporate-boards.html?emc=edit_ee_20150307&amp;nl=todaysheadlines&amp;nlid=68174326\">article in the New York Times<\/a>, this trend began with Norway passing the first legislation which required such quotas for board positions, and Spain, France, and Iceland followed with similar legislation. Each of these countries now require 40 percent of their corporate board positions to be held by women. A number of other European countries have this quota set at 30 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times reports that in the United States, which has no legislation requiring such a quota, women hold approximately 17 percent of the seats on corporate boards.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This current trend in Europe brings to mind the ethical questions: What should a government\u2019s role be with respect to such issues? What do you think of such legislation?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gender quotas in corporate boardrooms &#8211; an increasing trend On March 6, 2015, Germany passed a law\u00a0 that will require companies to give 30 percent of the seats on their corporate boards to women starting next year. 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