"As vice president of the European Commission since 2010, she is arguably the most prominent woman on Europe’s governing body. Indeed, rumor has it that she has ambitions to lead it one day. In her three terms as commissioner, she has confronted international soccer authorities over player transfer fees, mobile phone operators over roaming charges, and, when he was president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy over treatment of the Roma. But those fights may pale against the effort of Ms. Reding — a former journalist, a longtime politician and a mother — to institute quotas for women on the supervisory boards of Europe’s companies." (Quoted from article)