Over the past year, the proportion of women serving on the executive and supervisory boards of the top 100 largest … largest insurance companies: on both executive and supervisory boards, the proportion of women has sunk to almost nine and 22 … percent, respectively. For over ten years, DIW Berlin has been investigating to what extent women are represented in the top …

The proportion of women on executive boards of the 100 largest banks stagnated at almost nine percent in 2018. In the … sector as well. In 2018, the proportion of women on financial sector supervisory boards remained at around 23 percent. If the … top bodies to be composed of equal numbers of men and women. Compared to men, women in the financial sector are less …

Women still earn less than men on average in Germany. This applies to management positions even more: between 2010 and … differences in working time between women and men throughout their working lives. An important step is more individual time … sovereignty for both women and men in their jobs and a change in corporate culture to accommodate that. …

The paper proceeds from the assumption that the inequalities of opportunity between men and women on the labor market …, structural and ideological barriers are identified as the reasons for this severe underrepresentation of women. Increasing the … percentage of women in management positions in the private sector would still require the support of upper-level (male …