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Women on boards and traffic regulations

February 26th, 2011 Posted in freedom by

In a fascinating discussion on Five Live, Victoria Derbyshire talks to several female contributors about how to get more women on company boards.

I should declare an interest here,   Michelle McDowell, one of the contributors, is a friend.

The contributor from Iceland suggests that to make sure more women get on boards we need something like traffic regulations. She argued that this is because the rules on traffic helps us all behave in a better way.

That reminded me of the video below and made me wonder if her supposition is correct. It may be counter intuitive, but would women have a better chance to be on boards if certain rules were removed instead of more targets being imposed, just as people’s behaviour seemingly gets better without traffic lights?

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