Companies are always demanding the right to be allowed to freely do the right thing, however, after 100 years, where companies have had the freedoom to do the right thing, women are still where they are, second-class citizens.
Isn´t that quite enough time for the voluntary approach?
Onésimo Alvarez-Moro
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Chief executives speaking at the Women’s Forum in Deauville came down against quotas to improve the chances of women rising to the top of companies.
But they firmly endorsed other ways of encouraging greater diversity in corporate leadership.
Rounding off the three-day conference on Saturday, Patricia Russo, chief executive of Lucent Technologies of the US, and Carlos Ghosn, chief executive of Renault and Nissan, said other systems were better than strict quotas.
Mr Ghosn said that setting gradually rising targets to improve the percentage of women in leadership positions was effective, but it was important not to move too quickly: “You don’t want to push the number too high, because then people push women too far – beyond what they are trained for – and you have a lot of failures and people say ‘I told you: it doesn’t work’. I wouldn’t say quotas, I would say [set] milestones and objectives.”
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