Lack of women in top jobs to cause 'problems' for EU economy

The EU's internal market will suffer if companies do not put more women on their boards, the EU's gender equality commissioner Viviane Reding said Tuesday (11 July).

Reding made the claim while standing alongside Chantal Gaemperle, a board member at French luxury label LVMH, who had just signed an EU-sponsored pledge to increase the number of women in the company.

The commissioner said that come March next year she will look to see whether companies have made a "clear, precise and...