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Brickbat: German Gender Quotas

Charles Oliver | 12.4.2014 6:00 AM

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A new German law mandates that the nation's largest companies reserve 30 percent of the seats of their supervisory boards for women. Companies have until 2016 to meet the new quotas.

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Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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