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If we didn’t, we might scream. One attendee grabbed a mic to decry the notion of training to be board directors. Men have been sitting in boardrooms for centuries but only aer the push to include women did the necessity of training enter the zeitgeist. Women—and minori- ties—have to jump an extra hurdle, get that extra credential, always. is conference was led by the consuls general of France and Cana- da, who brought an interesting global perspective. Beginning in 2006, P. 13 several European nations, including more recently France, set quotas of 30% to 40% for women in boardrooms. e Gallic women in the IN THIS ISSUE room were fans of the regulation. In France today, any decision made by a board with less than 40% women is rendered invalid. UPFRONT Here in the United States, however, quotas would be a nonstarter. 4 EDITORIAL 20 GOTHAM GIGS I wondered what Siebert, who died in 2013, would think. 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FEBRUARY 5, 2018 | CRAIN’S NEW YORK BUSINESS | 3 P003_CN_20180205.indd 3 2/2/18 7:29 PM FEBRUARY 5, 2018 AGENDAWho’s afraid of winning Amazon? Sadly, quite a few New Yorkers elieve it or not, a fair number of New Yorkers think the city would be better off scaring away tech workers and losing the competition to host Amazon’s second headquarters. Their rationale, as a former Brooklynite living in Amazon’s home- Btown of Seattle wrote, is that home prices there have grown faster than in any other metro area and Amazon would make New York’s housing even costlier, subways even more crowded and trafc even slower. Let’s begin with this: New York will never be a company town. Even if all 50,000 Amazon employees materialize over 10 years as promised, they would increase the city’s job count by just 1%. It’s true that their shopping for housing would push up home prices and rents, but much less so here than in the smaller cities wooing the e-commerce giant. e website Apartment List examined 16 of the 20 nalists for Ama- zon’s H2Q and calculated that the inux of workers would increase rents already built and limit the scale and type of new development. en he by 1% to 2% a year in the smaller cities with lower wages, such as Raleigh, called for aordable housing, which is disingenuous rhetoric because Columbus, Indianapolis, Pittsburgh and Nashville. e largest—New NIMBYists’ stiing restrictions only make housing more expensive. York, Dallas, Los Angeles, Washington and Chicago—would see rents rise e city has gained some 502,000 jobs in the past ve years, yet housing 0.6% or less per year above what would oth- costs have actually leveled o, thanks to a erwise happen. New York would have the The housing and subway crises call boom in residential construction. But home tiniest rent bump, at 0.1% to 0.2%, because prices remain extremely high because over 50,000 workers add just one home shopper for adding housing and xing transit, the decades supply has not kept up with de- for every 60 units in the city. not building a wall around the city mand. is has also exacerbated income dis- But some groups are trying to stymie parities and forced workers to live far from the growth of our tech industry and the city where they would be the most productive. itself. Steve Herrick, executive director of the Cooper Square Commit- As for gridlock and crowded subways, the answers are congestion tee, which is trying to stop a proposed tech hub in Union Square, said pricing and better subways, not building a wall to keep newcomers out. last week: “A booming tech industry can have unintended and undesir- Preparing for growth—which is inevitable anyway—brings improvements able consequences in cities, such as displacement, overdevelopment and that benet New Yorkers already here. Trying to prevent it is a recipe for change in community character.” He demanded the city preserve what’s inequality and decline. We’re better than that. — THE EDITORS FINE PRINT The stock market’s 666-point, 2.5% drop Friday was noteworthy because there hadn’t been a day like it in quite a while. Still, to qualify among the Dow Jones Industrial Average’s 20 worst days ever, it would have had to fall by 7%. The last time that happened was in 2008. BY GERALD SCHIFMAN STATS A SMALL FRACTION OF NEW YORKERS—and largely 25 WORDS OR LESS high-income ones at that—would be dinged by the EXCLUSIVE CLUB congestion fee proposed for Manhattan’s central business district. AND THE CITY He’s in Siberia PERCENTAGE OF COMMUTERS WHO WOULD INCUR FEE “ Portion of Assembly districts in 5.5% right now.