Gender equality is a deciding factor for economic growth in the European Union. Proportion of women on executive … committees of publicly traded companies is an important component of gender equality policies. Proportion of women on executive … could promote gender equality in all member states …

useful signal to outside stakeholders of how serious companies are about gender equality. …

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 …

timely implementation as well as a more modern corporate organization. This way, new role models can be formed and gender …

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 share of women on the executive and supervisory boards for companies that have to comply to the gender quota for …

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