Das Ziel, mehr Frauen in Spitzengremien der Wirtschaft zu berücksichtigen, findet sowohl in der Öffentlichkeit als auch in der Politik immer stärkere Beachtung. Die Forderungen nach einer Frauenquote und die öffentlichkeitswirksame Bestellung von vier Frauen in die Vorstände der...

Bei der vergleichsweise hohen Fluktuation in den Spitzengremien des Finanzsektors in Deutschland in Folge der Finanzkrise wurde die Chance verpasst, für eine Erhöhung des Anteils der dort vertretenen Frauen zu sorgen. Im Jahr 2011 lag der Frauenanteil in Vorständen auf einem ähnlich geringen...

Führungspositionen sind nach wie vor eine Domäne von Männern - und je höher die Tätigkeiten in der Hierarchie angesiedelt sind, desto schwächer sind Frauen vertreten. In nahezu allen Wirtschaftszweigen üben Frauen in geringerem Maße Leitungsfunktionen aus als es ihrem Anteil an der...

As of 2005, and since 2008 in particular, child care provision for under-three-year-olds in Germany has been expanded across the board. We examine whether this expansion of services - using evidence of a reduced burden on mothers and fathers with children in this age group - has significantly...

Now, 25 years after the fall of the Wall, eastern and western German men are receiving similar state pensions, a main pillar in the system of old age provision in Germany. In contrast, the average pension paid to eastern German women far exceeds that of their western German counterparts. A...

The trend toward more women on the boards of directors of German companies continued in 2013, albeit on a small scale. The share of women on the supervisory boards of the 200 largest companies increased by more than two percentage points, and thereby at a somewhat higher rate than in recent...

In the last year, more women were appointed to the executive boards of major financial institutions. The share of women on the executive boards of banks and savings banks at the end of 2013 was a good six percent, which represents an increase of almost two percentage points over the previous...

The first ever gender-specific analysis of income and tax distribution in Germany has been implemented using the most recently available data on personal income tax statistics from 2007. According to its findings, the average income of women is only half that of men. This income gap is less...

In the financial sector, women represent the majority of employees, but it is still men who remain in the top positions. With women making up only 4.2 percent of the boards of the largest banks and savings banks at the end of 2012, they are still very much underrepresented (up 1 percentage point...

According to current survey results the reconciliation of family and work is still very difficult for a lot of parents. Most parents seek to share gainful employment and family duties more equally. Yet, financial incentives often favor the conventional single- or one and a halfearner model. In a...