Women on Every UAE Board, Rules Cabinet

by Lianne Gutcher, The National, UAE - The UAE Cabinet yesterday made it compulsory for corporations and government agencies to include women on their boards of directors....

Posted by Aralena Malone-Leroy on December 9, 2012 11:34 PM

Quotas for Women, More Than Necessary

by Gabriela Cañas, El País, Madrid - When it comes to putting women on company boards, quota systems, which in our representative democracies have spread far and wide into other concepts, have the unanimous support neither of countries (as in...

Posted by Aralena Malone-Leroy on November 19, 2012 11:50 PM

A Laboratory for the Advancement of Women

by Anna Reimann, Der Spiegel, Germany - The heated political debate continues in Germany over whether or not the country needs a gender quota at the highest levels of the private sector. Norway introduced such measures years ago -- and...

Posted by Aralena Malone-Leroy on May 31, 2012 12:49 AM

World Over, Quotas Help Women Enter Politics

by Madhavi Rajadhyaksha, Times of India, India - When Mrinal Gore won a seat in the BMC in the 1960s, there was no reservation for women. A socialist, Gore had untiringly worked to better citizens` facilities in Goregaon, prior to...

Posted by intern on April 11, 2011 2:59 AM

Gender Quotas for German Business?

by Jessica Donath, Spiegel Online, Germany - Germany's Justice Minister has called on companies to increase the number of women in top positions. On Wednesday, however, the 16 states' justice ministers proposed going further. They want to impose specific quotas...

Posted by intern on July 7, 2010 11:57 AM

Do Central Asia's Gender Quotas Help Or Hurt Women?

by Farangis Najibullah, Radio Free Europe, Czech Republic - By law, one out of every three lawmakers in Kyrgyzstan's parliament is female. One of them, 42-year-old Gulnora Derbisheva, says she has always wanted to play a role in changing society....

Posted by intern on July 5, 2010 7:36 PM