qualified men and women. Women are still underrepresented in executive/leading positions in both the private and public sector … industrialized countries in the last decades. Yet, strong gender inequalities persist in the career chances of equally highly … of the economy. We argue that such gender inequalities are also due to the fact that the majority of highly educated …

small. With regard to differences in the promotion probability between women and men, bivariate results based on data from … extent. The decomposition (according to Fairlie, 2003) of the career gap between women and men shows that only 8.6 percent of … estimations clearly indicate that these differences cannot account for gender differences in the promotion probability to a large …

justice with regard to gender relations. This paper discusses how the requirements and expectations of the population with …