In Italys male gerontocracy, gender quotas induced the restructuring of company boards
Fontana di Trevi, Rome, by Giorgio Galeotti, under a CC-BY-2.o licence
Women are underrepresented among top leadership positions everywhere. Gender quotas have been proposed to accelerate the process towards economic gender equality and to promote womens empowerment. Norway pioneered the introduction of gender quotas for boards of directors in 2005, followed by Italy in 2011 and, more recently, by France and Germany.
However, board gender quotas are controversial. On one side, they have been widely advocated for achieving a gender-balanced representation in the top of economic positions. On the other side, they …
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