The European Union is considering the introduction of mandatory 30 percent quota for female representation in top management of enterprises. In the Czech Republic, however, only 19% of people agree with this step, 56% are against it. That is according to a current study by KPMG Czech Republic and Ipsos. The study mapped the representation of women on boards of companies from the Czech Top 100 index in the first half of 2012. A representative sample of 503 respondents participated.
The introduction of quotas in the Czech Republic is supported more by women (23%). Men consider the quotas to be meningful only in 14% of cases. Supporters of the quotas regardless of their gender believe that the number of women and men in top management should be balanced (i.e. 50%). The quotas are suppoorted the most by people aged 45 to 54 (23%) and the least by young people under 24 years (10%). Respondents from Moravia (23%) support the quotas more than the Czechs (17%).
Currently there are only 8% of women on the boards the Czech Top 100 companies. Most of them work in the health care industry (26%), the least of them in technical fields (4%).
You can read the KPMG press release on the results of the study with the views of several top Czech female managers here.
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