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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.

Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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