EU wants women in the boardroom
Euranet, 22 September 2010
EWL Secretary General Myria Vassiliadou speaks on Euranet radio about the controversy surrounding the EU’s talk of quotas and action RE the Roma expulsions in FR.
The European Commissioner for Justice Viviane Reding has unveiled plans to boost the number of women in top corporate jobs.
During the presentation of her five-year gender equality strategy on Tuesday (21 September) she said she would address the issue at a meeting next spring with CEOs from several European companies.
At a different event, though, Commissioner Reding also let it slip that she saw herself victim of sexism.
She said she believed that her comments which compared France’s expulsion of Roma people to events during the Second World War caused such controversy because she was a woman.
Myria Vassiliadou is from the European Women’s Lobby and she told us how she felt about the commissioner’s position.
Interview in 13 languages: http://www.euranet.eu/eng/Inbox/english/EU-wants-women-on-top-corporate-jobs
