Germany agrees ‘historic’ mandatory boardroom quota for women

Government moves to close gender gap by requiring 30% female membershipGermany’s coalition government will introduce a mandatory quota for the number of women working as senior management in the country’s listed companies, in a move hailed as a “historic” step towards sexual equality in German boardrooms.In a deal agreed on Friday evening by Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats and their junior partner the Social Democrats, management boards with more than three memb