{"id":112232,"date":"2020-08-30T15:32:37","date_gmt":"2020-08-30T22:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/eu-revives-plans-for-mandatory-quotas-of-women-on-company-boards"},"modified":"2020-08-30T15:32:37","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T22:32:37","slug":"eu-revives-plans-for-mandatory-quotas-of-women-on-company-boards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/eu-revives-plans-for-mandatory-quotas-of-women-on-company-boards","title":{"rendered":"EU revives plans for mandatory quotas of women on company boards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/eu-revives-plans-for-mandatory-quotas-of-women-on-company-boards3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The European Union executive is reviving plans for mandatory quotas of women on company boards, amid slowing progress towards gender equality among top management.<\/p>\n<p>The EU commissioner for equality, Helena Dalli, told journalists that quotas \u201ccan be a very ugly word\u201d but were also \u201ca necessary evil, in the sense we have to use quotas because otherwise we will wait another 100 years for things to change by themselves\u201d.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>European-listed firms could face fines if fewer than 40% of their non-executive board seats are taken by women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union executive is reviving plans for mandatory quotas of women on company boards, amid slowing progress towards gender equality among top management. The EU commissioner for equality, Helena Dalli, told journalists that quotas \u201ccan be a very ugly word\u201d but were also \u201ca necessary evil, in the sense we have to use quotas [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}