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On April 18, the Bundestag rejected the introduction of a mandatory quota for women on the boards of publicly quoted companies, by 320 votes to 277.
The bill presented by the Bundesrat, the federal council representing Germany’s states, stipulated that, from 2018, 20 percent of board members should be women, and 40 percent from 2023. However, it "failed to pass the vote in the face of resistance from Angela Merkel’s coalition,” complains the daily.
Several conservative MPs, including Labour Minister Ursula von der Leyen (on the left of the photo), had announced that they would vote for the measure, before finally accepting a CDU proposal to make a "30 percent quota of women from 2020" part of the party’s election programme.
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