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Lessons from Europe: How to Get More Women on Corporate Boards

U.S. companies are in a moment of self-reflection.


This new-found introspection stems in large part from the #MeToo movement, which has prompted what Fortune’s Claire Zillman recently described as a “reexamination of women’s place in the business hierarchy.”

And yet one area where corporate culture has barely shifted is company boards; in the U.S. only about 20% of directors are female.

The U.S. business world could take a lesson here from Europe, where the momentum behind adding women to boards has picked up steam.

At Fortune’s MPW International Summit in London earlier this week, women at the forefront of the push to diversify European boards shared how they’re moving the needle.

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20 June 2018


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