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 …

The number of women serving on the executive boards of large companies in Germany once again increased in 2023: Around … 18 percent (153 of 875) of executive board members at the 200 largest companies were women as of late fall 2023, two …, the figure was even higher. Around 23 percent of executive board members at the DAX 40 companies, for example, are women …

The share of women on executive boards of large companies in Germany has increased somewhat more strongly than in … previous years. The top 200 companies reached the ten percent mark for the first time: women held 14 more board positions than … inspection, growth in the proportion of women managers, especially when observed over a longer period of time, is progressing …

The statutory gender quota for supervisory boards is effective: the proportion of women on supervisory boards has … for executive boards? As the second part of the DIW Berlin Women Executives Barometer, this report analyzes whether a … relationship between the growth of the proportion of women on supervisory boards and on executive boards exists. The key result is …

tendency of women to start businesses in the service sector, which is underrepresented in the crafts. Women also tend to be … women to care for children and actively participate in the labor force at the same time. On the other, incomes are generally … lower. Women are more risk averse and tend to be more cautious in their entrepreneurial endeavors. They are more likely to …

activities. Women are relatively often and foreigners rarely represented in the start-up actvities of the service sector. …

confined to men. In particular, administrative data from public pension systems are less reliable for women because of the … analyze a large data set from the German public pension scheme on women who died between 1994 and 2005, employing both non …-parametric and parametric methods. To overcome the problem mentioned above we concentrate on women with relatively long earnings …