After fora quotas have spread across Europe in recent years, countries are now pointing their law to executive control. Germany’s motion in 2020, and now it’s France’s turn. In a historic vote, the French Parliament voted this week to introduce gender quotas. control groups and corporate control networks with more than 1,000 people. The goals are 30% for both sexes until 2027, 40% until 2030.
That’s what leadership looks like. Emmanuel Macron has made gender parity one of the most sensible priorities of his five-year term and appointed an experienced leader in the generation industry to give him momentum. DELL, Lenovo and HP, where you took a closer look at gender balancing efforts in businesses.
“I spent 30 years in the personal sector. There are many other people who communicate, communicate, communicate about more gender balance. But there’s a lot more discussion than action. France can be seen as a sexist country, and there is still much” of sexism across the country, yet the tide is changing and the last decade of political push has replaced opinions. Larger French companies, known as CAC40, are slowly but now integrating change.
The replenishment began ten years ago with board dues, set at a minimum of 40% for both genders, known as the Cope Zimmerman Act. After being hotly debated, it sparked an impressive balance, catapulting the CAC40 Councils from 10% women in 2009 to 45% in 2019. This places France at the forefront of European countries, and 2nd in the world in Gender Balance terms (after Iceland, which is 46% female, 54% male). The misleading arguments that there were not enough qualified women to meet the quota, or that the quality of the board would be affected by low-qualified women, have (for the most part) disappeared. In 2018, France went the extra mile by introducing legislation on pay equity and full transparency of gender balance statistics. But despite the repositioning at the board level, the balance of executive leadership has lagged far behind, as is the case in most countries. Given the good fortune of board dues to achieve replenishment, many other people skeptical of the legislative hammer in the first place have come to settle for its effectiveness.
The bill goes far beyond legislating gender balance on the cusp, also aiming to fix the incredibly regressive blow women suffered during the pandemic. “Women were on the front line during the Covid,” Moreno says. “They dominate the most important, sectors: health, education, distribution, cleaning, but they were also the first to lose the job, the worst paid and least recognized, those who had to take care of young people when they closed schools, keeping their homes and jobs. An unlikely maximum request! As Simone De Beauvoir predicted, it only takes an economic or social crisis for women’s rights to rece back. She was right. And this law seeks to cure that.
The new law also includes measures to address women’s problems more broadly. She is subtly interested in the position and the user to which social invoices are made, to make sure they reach women’s bank accounts than their husbands. “She prioritizes access to child care for single parents and focuses on supporting women in entrepreneurship, lately at a low point of 30%. This reflects the slow integration of women’s problems into the political agenda, which is also evident in the United States with Biden’s proposals that incorporate many of Warren’s concepts. The unanimous vote in the French Parliament shows that this reformulation is increasingly accepted.
The proposal will now have to move to the Senate and be followed before Macron’s term as president ends. “My dream is parity everywhere,” Moreno explains. It’s like the virtual revolution, which has an absolutely cross-cutting character: from the care of fitness and cybersecurity to the economy and synthetic intelligence, the virtual is everywhere, and the same goes for women. Otherwise, these systems remain sesic and unbalanced”.
The complexity of gender parity lies in affecting countries, companies and couples in an interdependent game of cause and effect. Achieving a balance in a sustainable way requires a mixture of public tension and adaptation of the personal sector. Most Anglo-Saxon countries liked to leave The UK has allowed the forums of administrators to set voluntary targets, but more recently the law on the pay hole and shared parental leave was passed. In the United States, even the most productive forums are not 30% successful. Biden’s leadership is intensifying the factor with its new Gender Equity Council, which reports to the president and reaches almost all closet secretaries, but it remains to be noted whether such a steep slope can be scaled without quotas.
France is an example of what proactive public policy can aspire to, and its sector is adapting. Will other countries be inspired by their approach?
I’m the CEO of 20-first, a global “balance” consulting firm. I work with control groups to achieve generational and gender balance through a focus on leadership, culture and
I’m the CEO of 20-first, a global “balance” consulting firm. I work with executive groups to achieve generational and gender balance through a focus on leadership, culture and systems. I facilitate politically incorrect discussions that lead leaders to outline strategic business opportunities to achieve balance (and the dangers of lack of balance). The books include “Seven Steps to Leading Gender-Balanced Businesses,” “Why Women Are Serious: Understanding the Rise of Our Next Economic Revolution” and “Late Love: Mature Mating. “I deal with problems of leadership and longevity, gender balance (in painting and at home), careers and couples. Based in London, I write for FORBES and Harvard Business Review.