23/06/2011 Session
According to PACE, the experience of quotas could be advantageously transposed to the private and socio-economic sectors to improve the representation of women in decision-making bodies. In this connection, the Assembly proposed in a resolution adopted today that member states “introduce the obligation for state-owned and large private companies to guarantee a minimum 40% of representation of women on their governing and management boards”.
On the basis of the conclusions of a report on the matter by Gisèle Gautier (France, EPP/CD), PACE also called on member states to “introduce progressive measures to ensure reconciliation of private and working life”, in particular as regards parental leave, balanced participation of women and men in family life and flexible work arrangements.
Above all, however, the Assembly believes that radical changes in society should be promoted in order to end the tendency to conceive stereotyped gender roles, which confine women to subordinate posts.