EU: the European Round Table of Industrialists, ERT, presents two initiatives promoting women with executive positions

Initiatives.  The ERT, a very old lobby in Brussels which gathers 45 CEOs from the largest companies in Europe, launched, on March 12, a database on which its members will post the resumes of extremely competent women to take on supervisory positions.  These applications will be centralized by three headhunters designated by the forum – Egon Zehnder, Russell Reynolds and Spencer Stuarts.  The idea is to give these women more visibility so that, in the long run, they may join businesses’ executive structures – boards, supervisory boards and other executive bodies.  Meanwhile, some of its members committed to publish the objectives they set out and the results obtained to increase the number of women in the company as a rule or for supervisory and executive positions.  The chart, available on the ERT’s website, will be updated once a year. 
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utive bodies. Meanwhile, some of its members committed to publish the objectives they set out and the results obtained to increase the number of women in the company as a rule or for supervisory and executive positions. The chart, available on the ERT’s website, will be updated once a year.

Optional. These initiatives, decided a few days before Commissioner Viviane Reding presents her consultation on quotas for women on boards (see our dispatch No. 120151), are a possible answer: as expecte

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