Bussemaker wants to help women to administrative position with special site – NU.nl

“The process around vacancies on the boards of companies is still too often a black box where the” old boys network “assigns the jobs,” says the minister. “This does not do justice to the female talent that is eager to get to work in a management position.”

can be seen on the website that vacancies will arise in the coming years in the Boards and supervisory boards in business. Therefore women could respond faster and more focused on vacant administrative positions.

It is released patches on the boards of the hundred largest companies in the Netherlands. The information comes from public sources, such as annual reports.

This shows that this year released some 156 administrative positions. The vast majority of these features, 129 spots, is currently occupied by a male driver. In 2017 expect more than one hundred and fifty jobs.

“We know that mixed teams of men and women produce the best results. Companies with poorly differentiated workplace thus not only do women, especially themselves too short,” says Bussemakerhuis.

last chance

Bussemakerhuis companies will still give a last chance to voluntarily ensure that the summit next year for at least 30 percent are women. “That opportunity must then be seized with both hands,” she stresses.

If the company fails, then the minister will introduce a female quota. Bussemaker himself is not in favor of a quota, but she thinks no choice to have if not improve the situation.

Target

An earlier study showed that the industry is still far from this goal has been removed. The end of 2014 was just under 10 percent of the members of the Board of Directors a woman. At the supervisory board was more than 11 percent.

According Bussemakerhuis well talk of improvement. So chose in the first half of last year, 70 percent of the supervisory boards at a new appointment for a female commissioner. A year earlier, this was true for 43 percent. Nearly one in three companies had in early 2015 with a balanced supervisory board.

Meanwhile, her party, the PvdA, already started writing a law that imposes a quota. MP Keklik Yücel is not convinced that the necessary progress is actually made and therefore the party has already started this year with the writing of the legal text

By:. NOW. com