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26 Pace Int'l L. Rev. 1 (2014)

handle is hein.journals/pacinlwr26 and id is 1 raw text is: PACE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW PACE INTERNATIONAL LAW REVIEW SYMPOSIUM EDITION Volume 26, Number 1 Spring 2014 COMPARATIVE SEX REGIMES AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: AN INTRODUCTION Darren Rosenblum In February 2013, on the day of the worst snowstorm in many years, Pace International Law Review conducted a sym- posium on Comparative Sex Regimes and Corporate Govern- ance. Despite a total shutdown of all transport networks and the consequent absence of a few stranded scholars, we met to discuss the fraught questions posed by corporate board quotas and formulate answers. Led by Norway in 2003, several nations have begun to mandate certain levels of women's inclusion on corporate boards. In the face of widespread exclusion of women from cor- porate power that suggests structural biases, these quotas ap- pear radical and compelling. The wake of the financial crisis has accentuated this phenomenon, as stereotypes of women as more risk-averse prompt legislatures to attempt to ensure more economic stability. A decade of thinking about quotas has left me with no easy 1 1

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