At a joint meeting on Monday 21 September, the European Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI) and the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM) re-tabled the issue of women being included on management boards of major European companies.
The European Commission’s proposal in this area – a draft directive on ‘gender balance among non-executive directors of companies’ was agreed upon in the European Parliament in 2013, but still faces reservations from...