News comes from Europe that this year’s World Economic Forum meeting, to be held in Davos next week, has imposed a gender quota to boost participation by women executives.

The issue of gender quotas is nothing new – a number of legislative bodies around the globe have instituted such policies, and the 2010 elections renewed the conversation in the United States. Europe has dabbled with the idea of instituting quotas on corporate boards, an idea that has yet to pass.