Why Diversity? Gender Balance in Corporate Bodies. Notes on the Recent Amendments to the Equal Opportunities Code and the Final Go-ahead from the Council to the Directive on Gender Balance on Corporate Boards

The work analyzes the rules stated by the Law no. 120/2011 (so-called Golfo-Mosca Law) and its subsequent and even recent amendments develops both in relation to the details of the discipline and to the principles of corporate governance and gender diversity in listed companies, State-owned companies, bank and insurance companies Insert abstract and keywords here The work takes into account also the recent Law no 162/2021, amending the Italian Equal Opportunities Code (D.lgs. 11 April 2006 no 198) and introducing the new rules about the certification of gender equality, or ‘gender diversity rating’, envisaged also by Mission 5 of the National Reform Programme (PNRR).