The real challenge, globally, is to find a solution between opposition of gender quotas as an assault on company rights and opposition to business-as-usual from a bunch of white dudes in a walnut-paneled boardroom.
This is because in the French tradition, they would drape hugely expensive white linen damask over a simple walnut table and place a silver mirror on top.
After Hurricane Katrina forced it to close in 2005, the hotel reopened in 2009, completely renovated with a long walnut bar, elegant tile floor and white coat-wearing wait staff, nodding to the former opulence of old New Orleans.