Comments on: Is Norway working? The case for women on boards

By: Women in Charge: The Next Critical Step for Work/Life Progress » The Glass Hammer

Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:46:43 +0000

[...] to Lysbakken, the country’s gender quota law (that women must comprise 40% of the boards of the country’s public-limited companies) and [...]

By: Women in the Board Room «

Women in the Board Room « — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 01:49:59 +0000

[...] study by Amy Dittmar, associate professor of finance at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business and her [...]

By: Just Don’t Call Them Gender Targets: The Need to Move Diversity Hiring into the Open » The Glass Hammer

Tue, 25 May 2010 17:02:42 +0000

[...] number of women need to be hired still seems radical, even to more egalitarian societies such as Norway’s. Back in 2002 when the country’s trade and industry minister, Ansgar Gabrielsen, proposed a law [...]

By: Full disclosure: UK Government steps in to get more women into the boardroom » The Glass Hammer

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:02:04 +0000

[...] serious action could be the introduction of quotas, which have been considered in Norway and France, amongst other places. Quotas would not be embraced with open arms by the UK financial [...]

By: Candyce

Candyce — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:57:10 +0000

It seems a little shortsighted to conclude that adding women to the board contributed to a decline in share price if the order was made compulsory in 2006 with a 2-year transition period. The economy started its decline in August 2007, so most companies would have dramatically declined in value from 2007 to 2009 regardless of board composition. Did the report consider this and compare the declines in companies without women on the board?