France may force board equality

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Series Details 3.12.09
Publication Date 03/12/2009
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Article reports that French companies could be forced to give at least half of their board seats to women under a proposal introduced in the French Parliament on the 2 December 2009 by France’s ruling centre-right UMP party.

The French government has yet to announce whether it backs the proposed law, which is due to be debated in January 2010.

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