Belgium: Employment Minister proposes quotas for women on large businesses’ boards

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the stock exchange don’t have a single woman sitting at their board. This is a recent observation by the Institute for Gender Equality. After this study, Employment Minister Joelle Milquet took on the case and proposed several concrete measures to reverse the trend. (Ref. 091062)

This number, published in the study “women on the peak” carried out by the Institute for Gender Equality, proves that women are still underrepresented in decision-making positions, whatever the business sector, even th

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