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Financial sector : proportion of women in top decision-making bodies is increasing more slowly than at the beginning of the decade : equal gender representation is still a long way...
Holst, Elke; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 8 (2018) 3, pp. 32-45
timely implementation as well as a more modern corporate organization. This way, new role models can be formed and gender …
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Top-decision naking bodies of large businesses : gender quota for supervisory boards is effective : development is almost at a standstill for executive boards
Holst, Elke; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 8 (2018) 3, pp. 17-31
The gender quota for supervisory boards in Germany is effective: by the end of 2017, the proportion of women on the … not been a gender quota introduced for executive boards in Germany. The development of the proportion of women on these …
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Women on high-level boards of banks and insurance companies : growth coming to a standstill on supervisory boards
Holst, Elke; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 9 (2019) 3, pp. 33-45
The proportion of women on executive boards of the 100 largest banks stagnated at almost nine percent in 2018. In the 60 largest insurance companies, the proportion increased by a good percentage point to almost ten percent. While growth on executive boards has been weakening in past years, it...
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Increasing Number of Women on Supervisory Boards of Major Companies in Germany: Executive Boards Still Dominated by Men
Holst, Elke; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 9 (2019) 3, pp. 17-32
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 …
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On the Underrepresentation of Women in Top Boards of Large Companies (Zur Unterrepräsentanz Von Frauen in Spitzengremien Der Wirtschaft : Ursachen Und Handlungsansätze)
Holst, Elke; Wiemer, Anita - 2010
The paper proceeds from the assumption that the inequalities of opportunity between men and women on the labor market and in society overall tend to consolidate in the management bodies of large companies. The predominance of men on the supervisory boards of Germany's largest private sector...
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Zur Unterrepräsentanz von Frauen in Spitzengremien der Wirtschaft : Ursachen und Handlungsansätze
Holst, Elke; Wiemer, Anita - 2010
) management. In other countries, progress has already been made in this area with the use of quotas. -- Board diversity ; gender … diversity ; glass ceiling ; stereotypes ; gender quota …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003962270
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Germany's next top manager : does personality explain the gender career gap?
Jebsen, Simon; Holst, Elke; Tobsch, Verena - In: Management revue : MRev 22 (2011) 3, pp. 240-273
estimations clearly indicate that these differences cannot account for gender differences in the promotion probability to a large …
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Differences in full-time work experience explain almost a quarter of the gender pay gap in management positions
Holst, Elke; Marquardt, Anne - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 8 (2018) 34/35, pp. 315-324
2016, there was an average gender pay gap of 30 percent in gross hourly earnings. If gender-specific differences in … experience explains the gender pay gap to almost a quarter according to the present study based on data from the Socio …-Economic Panel (Sozio-ökonomisches Panel, SOEP). In order to reduce the gender pay gap, measures are needed to counteract the large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011899209
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Personality and career : she's got what it takes
Jebsen, Simon; Holst, Elke; Tobsch, Verena - 2009
looking at the impact of self-reported personality traits on gender differences in career chances. We compare managers and …-Economic Panel (SOEP) in 2005 show that there are significant gender differences in personality traits, multivariate estimations … clearly indicate that these differences cannot account for gender differences in career opportunities. Nevertheless …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011636698
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Personality and Career - She’s Got What it Takes
Jebsen, Simon; Holst, Elke; Tobsch, Verena - 2010
looking at the impact of self-reported personality traits on gender differences in career chances. We compare managers and …-Economic Panel (SOEP) in 2005 show that there are significant gender differences in personality traits, multivariate estimations … clearly indicate that these differences cannot account for gender differences in career opportunities. Nevertheless …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014199805