On October 17th, 2022, the European Council approved the “Women on Boards” Directive that aims at fostering equal treatment and opportunities between women and men on the European employment market by imposing gender quotas within corporate boards. According to this directive, by 2026, companies should have 40% of the underrepresented sex among non-executive directors or 33% among all directors.
The way is still far ahead as this directive still has to be voted by the European Parliament and transposed into member states law.
France has already started to progressively introduce gender quotas since the « Loi Copé-Zimmermann » Act in 2011.