Germany sets quota for women on boards of directors – EXAME.com

 São Paulo – A new law in Germany opens the way for women to gain more positions in the hierarchy of companies

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 Approved on Friday 6, the House of Representatives of the country and the International Women’s Day eve, the law provides that the companies intended to 30% of the seats on the boards for the task.

 

 Quotas for women come to minimize gender inequality in the company command and begin to be worth from next year. Will be directly affected by the new law large companies with over 2000 employees.

 

 Midsize, which are more than 3500 companies in the country, will also have to determine its own quota to executive: almost 60% of medium-sized enterprises in Germany have no women in leadership positions, according to research published by the German newspaper Handelsblatt .

 

 But the Germans are not pioneers, this time. In 2003, Norway adopted the mandatory presence of women in 40% of the chairs of the boards of the companies there. Spain, France, Finland, the Netherlands and Italy followed the same path.

 

 Here, gender equality in the corporate world is far from being a spontaneous reality and there is no legislation in this regard. However, there are those who advocate the adoption of women’s quota system. The president of Magazine Luiza Luiza Trajano, is one of the people who raise this flag.