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Transcript: In Norway, Law Promotes Women In Boardroom
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LINDA WERTHEIMER
NPR Morning Edition
08-10-2009
In Norway, Law Promotes Women In Boardroom
Host: LINDA WERTHEIMER
Time 11:00-12:00 PM
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LINDA WERTHEIMER, host:
A top business regulator in Europe likes to say that if Lehman Brothers had been Lehman Sisters, if more women had been in charge, the investment bank might not have gone bankrupt. The U.S. government can't force companies to put women in senior positions, but in Norway it's the law. The law requires that women hold at least 40 percent of the seats on a company's board of directors.
NPR's Eric Westervelt traveled there to see what kind of impact that's having on business.
ERIC WESTERVELT: In 2002, barely six percent of ...