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France's large companies: parity in sight on boards, not at the top
Women have joined the boards of France's large companies in numbers over the past decade, but top management roles still resist them — as Christel Heydemann bids to take the helm at Orange.
France's large companies: towards parity on boards but not in management
Women have joined the boards of France's large companies in numbers over the past decade, but top management roles still resist them.
The women taking charge of large groups
Veolia, Suez, Engie — large groups are handing the chief executive's office to women. A very slow movement, but an irreversible one.
Parity is not CAC 40
Women have joined the boards of France's large companies over the past decade, but top management roles still resist them — just as Christel Heydemann bids to take the helm at Orange.
Parity on boards: the Copé-Zimmermann generation
A new law passed on 16 December requires companies to raise women's share of executive committees. Although France has climbed to first place on women's presence on large-company boards over ten years, the effect has not carried through to executive bodies. And representation of every kind of diversity still lags…
Doubling the number of women running CAC 40 companies is easy
Appointing a female chief executive — at Orange, for instance — would take the number from one to two.
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