Norway's "women on board" program goes into effect
Posted by Diane Danielson at 9:41 AM

From the New York Times International:

OSLO, Jan. 8 - On the first day of this year - and in the teeth of strenuous opposition from many Norwegian businessmen - Norway's leftist government put into effect one of the more radical attempts to achieve sexual equality: requiring that in the next two years 40 percent of the board members of the nation's large, publicly traded private companies be women.

The whole article is worth reading because it looks at how Europe (especially Germany) has a dismal record of allowing women and minorities into corporate management positions, despite the fact that women are outnumbering the men in higher education, and actually making inroads in politics and media.