Women on Boards: Share of Women up to 16.6% as European Parliament Committees back Commission proposal

EU News 436/2013

IP/13/943
Brussels, 14 October 2013

The European Parliament’s Committees on Legal Affairs (JURI) and Women’s Rights & Gender Equality (FEMM) have today voted (40 for, 9 against and 2 abstentions) to support a proposal by the European Commission to address the gender imbalance on company boards in Europe. With this vote, the European Parliament (which decides with the Council of Ministers on an equal footing on this proposal), paves the way for further progress of the draft law in the EU legislative process.

The vote coincides with a new report on women in decision-making, released by the European Commission today, including figures on women on boards at major publicly listed companies in the EU. The latest figures (from April 2013) show that the share of women on boards has increased to 16.6% (from 15.8% in October 2012). The figures also show the different levels of representation amongst non-executive directors (17.6% women up from 16.7% in October 2012) and senior executives (11% up from 10.2%).

Source and additional information:
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-13-943_en.htm?locale=en

Representation of women and men on the boards of large listed companies, April 2013 URL

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