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What Board Directors Really Think of Gender Quotas

Harvard Business

The largest companies are required to set a target for the number of women on their board, but there are no clear guidelines on what that number should be. and European executive recruiters. ”Executive recruiters also talked about the difficulty of bringing on more women. In Europe, Denmark is another outlier.

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Why Do So Few Women Edit Wikipedia?

Harvard Business

In 2008, a survey found that less than 13% of Wikipedia contributors worldwide were women. Wikipedia’s future may depend on its ability to recruit more editors from the other half of the population. The free online encyclopedia that “anyone can edit” was outed as being mostly run by men. it was 15%.

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