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Top management: even at the highest level, stereotypes still shape women's careers
Women's presence in corporate leadership is growing but held back by persistent stereotypes. The numbers still fall short, above all at the summit of organisations, private and public alike.
Workplace equality: the market regulator steps in
Law 2025-391 of 30 April 2025 designated the Autorité des Marchés Financiers, working with the Haut Conseil à l'Égalité, as the authority responsible for promoting and monitoring gender-balance rules on the boards and management boards of listed companies meeting certain conditions. A symbolic change, and a…
Women and governance: more women at the head of organisations
The Marie Claire Agir Pour l'Égalité think-and-do tank opened 2025 at the MEDEF with a session on lifting the glass ceiling — the invisible barrier that still keeps women from senior and powerful positions. An explanation.
An identikit portrait of the European chief executive
Men or women? Promoted from within or hired outside? Executive talent advisers Beyond Associés reviewed the main characteristics of the people running Stoxx 600 companies. Les Echos has the findings exclusively.
Executive and management committees: women's progress at the top is measured in inches
The targets of the 2011 Copé-Zimmermann law, which set women's share of large-company boards at 40%, have been met; climbing the next steps is proving harder, writes Anne Rodier in her column. Board, executive committee, management committee, board chair and chief executive are the five steps of women's advance in…
Quotas for women at large companies: results that do not lie
With the Copé-Zimmermann and then the Rixain laws on quotas at large companies, women are increasingly present in leadership bodies. But top management roles remain hard to reach, according to the latest IFA and Ethics & Boards barometer.
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