Public interest in the gender pay gap has risen significantly over the past years in Germany, but the size of the … gender pay gap has barely changed. A comparison across European countries shows that a lower female labor force participation … vary across countries, are one explanation for this. Germany has one of the highest gender pay gaps in Europe compared to …

governance codes. Statutory gender quotas are significantly more effective than recommendations, as a descriptive comparison of … 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 …

The gender care gap, i.e., the difference between the amount of unpaid care work-such as childcare and housework …-performed between men and women is comparatively high in Germany: Women take on much more unpaid care work than men. This gap increases … consistently when starting a family. At the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, many feared that the gender care gap may …

banks in Germany rose slightly to almost nine and 23 percent, respectively. However, growth has come to a halt in the 60 … timely implementation as well as a more modern corporate organization. This way, new role models can be formed and gender …

wives would increase substantially in west Germany, while a significant number of husbands would drop out of the labor force. …

maternal and paternal employment. It focuses on Germany, drawing on data from the German Family Demography Panel Study (FReDA … views of respondents with different origins: West Germany, East Germany, immigrants from different world regions, and second …-generation migrants in West Germany. The results highlight remarkable differences between respondents from West and East Germany, with the …

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 … percent). Generally, the share of female non-executive directors (in Germany, this refers to supervisory board members) is …