LONDRES (Dow Jones)- La présidente du directoire d’Areva SA (CEI.FR), Anne Lauvergeon, a décidé que 20% des postes de direction du groupe devaient être occupés par des femmes, rapportait le Financial Times dans son édition du week-end.
La dirigeante a ainsi édicté une "règle interne" en vertu de laquelle tous les organes de décision du groupe de technologie nucléaire devront compter un cinquième de femmes.
La dirigeante marque ainsi un changement de cap : elle avait dans le passé jugé les quotas "humiliants".
L’article du Financial Times-25-09-09
Areva chief in U-turn on female quotas
By Sarah Halls and Andrew Hill
Anne Lauvergeon, chief executive of Areva, has switched course on gender quotas and ruled that a minimum of 20 per cent of women must hold an executive role in the French nuclear engineering company.
Ms Lauvergeon, number three in the Financial Times’s new ranking of the Top 50 Women in World Business, had previously described quotas as “humiliating”.
In the male-dominated nuclear industry, 35 per cent of Areva’s engineers are already women. But, to move more of them into the executive ranks, Ms Lauvergeon told the Financial Times that she had “defined an internal rule” that women would make up a fifth of “every committee in the company.”
The issue of whether to set quotas to advance women in the workforce is highly divisive. Ms Lauvergeon has said in the past that she prefers close monitoring of the balance of recruitment and a policy of promoting the woman if male and female candidates are equally competent.
The FT’s top woman in world business for 2009 is Indra Nooyi, chief executive of PepsiCo. She attributes her success to her many mentors.
Andrea Jung, Avon Products’ chief executive and number two in the ranking, said she was wary of government intervention to promote women.
The FT ranking was produced in collaboration with Egon Zehnder International, the executive recruitment consultancy and selected by a jury of experts – including Marjorie Scardino, chief executive of Pearson (publisher of the FT). It is based on a combination of tenure, the complexity and geographical scope of the executives’ companies, and their corporate performance. Women not running the top company in any group were excluded.
The inaugural global ranking showed a wide geographical spread of female executives, but chief executives of North American companies – and Americans running non-US companies – were more heavily represented than women or companies from other regions.
Only one executive from each of France and Germany appears on the list, although the UK and Scandinavia are well represented.
Dong Mingzhu, head of Gree Electric Appliances , is the highest ranked Chinese woman, at number nine on the list. Fourteen of the executives head companies from Asia and Australia.
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