In 2008, the Norwegian government introduced a law designed to force public companies to have 40 percent female directors on their boards.

At the time, “only 6 per cent of directors were female”; today, Norway

“has the world’s highest proportion of female board members. . . . 44 per cent of directors are women.”137 This compares, in 2018, to “10.6 percent—or 643—of the total 6,081 board seats on Fortune 500 companies,”138 including 12 firms that “lack a single female board member.”139 How well do you feel women are represented as executives and directors in your country? Do you think a law similar to Norway’s would improve things?