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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.
Executives face new non-financial pressures
Leaders around the world have changed, or will have to change, their frame of reference if their companies are to survive.
CAC 40: the new wave of fifty-somethings
Between governance crises, natural succession and the separation of chairman and chief executive, the CAC 40 giants are showing many new faces — still very largely male.
"It is for directors to show activism"
Chapter Zero France has published its first pay-and-climate barometer with the Institut Français des Administrateurs and Ethics & Boards. In this interview its president, Monica de Virgiliis, discusses France's and the CAC 40's lead on climate criteria, and how her experience of technological upheaval helps…
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