Asserts Helen Grant, Britain's equality minister and moderate-conservative. From the London Evening Standard (Britain): "Women risk being 'demeaned' by EU quotas forcing companies to appoint more of them onto boards, equalities minister Helen Grant warned [yesterday].
She strongly opposed moves by the European Commission to force large companies to reserve at least 40 per cent of their non-executive director board seats for women by 2020."
The article continues: "Britain has joined eight other EU nations to thwart the Brussels drive to legislate on improving gender balance in business.
The UK believes that a voluntary approach, pressurising firms on this issue, is already working. 'Enforced quotas hang over us and business like the Sword of Damocles and that worries me,' Ms Grant told a fringe meeting on women on boards at the Conservative annual rally in Birmingham. 'That kind of positive discrimination can demean a woman’s real value....and alienate men.'"
Helen Grant: "European Union Board Quotas Demean Women"
