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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

Over the past year, the proportion of women serving on the executive and supervisory boards of the top 100 largest banks in Germany rose slightly to almost nine and 23 percent, respectively. However, growth has come to a halt in the 60 largest insurance companies: on both executive and...

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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

, particularly inflexible working structures for managers, which ensure that women are hardly represented in middle management … likely to be promoted to senior management positions than in any other sector. This is due to, among other things …

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Gender discrimination and sexual harassment : insights through a comparison of the United States and Germany

Droege, Lukas - 2013

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While gender quotas for top positions in the private sector differ across EU countries, they are effective overall

Kirsch, Anja; Sondergeld, Virginia; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 12 (2022) 3/4, pp. 32-39

This second report in the DIW Berlin Women Executives Barometer 2022 explores the designs and effects of gender quotas across Europe, coming to the conclusion that they are an effective instrument for increasing the share of women in top positions at large companies. Furthermore, the quotas...

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Support on the way to the top? : the effect of organisational equal opportunities measures on women's promotion prospects

Wanger, Susanne - 2022

Even though women have been able to increase their participation in management positions to a small extent in recent … years, they are still significantly underrepresented in management positions. Organisational measures to promote gender … organisational measures may increase women's career opportunities or promote the assumption of management positions on a part …

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