This paper investigates if there is state dependence in the gender composition of managers in German establishments. We … analyze whether the number of hired female managers (respectively the share of females within hired managers) depends on the … female manager hires in present leads to more female hired managers in the future. Similarly, the number of male manager …

Even though women have been able to increase their participation in management positions to a small extent in recent … equality and work-life balance are seen as an option to reduce inequalities between men and women. However, there are … organisational measures may increase women's career opportunities or promote the assumption of management positions on a part …

gender balanced. Our paper builds on social identity theory to examine the impact of corporate elites—men and women who sit … period of 2010-2015, shows that the presence of multi-board men is negatively associated with women’s participation, while … the presence of multi-board women and other women on management boards is positively related to gender diversity on boards …

There was a significant increase in the number of women on executive boards of large companies in Germany from 2020 to … 2021 after years of slow progress: In fall 2021, there were 139 women on the executive boards of the 200 largest companies … the beginning of the DIW Berlin Women Executives Barometer in 2006. There were also markedly more female executive board …

The proportion of women on the boards of large companies in Germany continued to increase during 2020. In the fourth …, growth was slow, as it was in some of the other groups of companies as well: The proportion of women on the executive boards … 2013, there was even a stagnation in the proportion of women on the executive boards of the DAX 30 companies. The minimum …