The gender care gap, i.e., the difference between the amount of unpaid care work-such as childcare and housework … grow even larger. In fact, empirical analyses show that gender differences in care work did increase in young families at …-performed between men and women is comparatively high in Germany: Women take on much more unpaid care work than men. This gap increases …

years, increasingly more European countries have introduced statutory gender quotas to combat this underrepresentation …. Other European countries have instead relied on voluntary gender diversity recommendations in the national corporate … governance codes. Statutory gender quotas are significantly more effective than recommendations, as a descriptive comparison of …

The gender quota for supervisory boards is continuing to show its impact: the proportion of women on the supervisory … becoming more and more apparent that the gender quota does not have the impact hoped for on executive boards, at least not in …

Work and family life arrangements differed greatly between the east and west before German reunification in 1990. Since … remain. Mothers in the east work full time markedly more often compared to mothers in the west. However, women in younger age …

from 11 percent to around 14 percent. Similar to the gender quota for supervisory boards, this shows that statutory …

This second report in the DIW Berlin Women Executives Barometer 2022 explores the designs and effects of gender quotas … 2021, this report shows that the group of nine EU countries that have introduced a gender quota has a significantly greater … calculations that take into account that certain factors differ by country, such as cultural norms regarding gender roles or labor …