Portugal has the lowest proportion of female board members of any European country while some nations have introduced legislation to spur companies to add women at the highest level of management.
The CHART OF THE DAY shows how just 5 percent of board members of the nation’s Stoxx Europe 600 Index companies in 2013 were women, according to data compiled by Bloomberg Intelligence. Greece followed with 6.7 percent and Italy with 10.5 percent. Norway has the highest proportion of women after introducing a 40 percent quota in 2003, followed by Finland and France, which also have legislation in place.
