The aim of recruiting more women into top-level management positions in business is attracting increasing interest … marginal role in the most important economic decision-making processes in Germany's largest companies. Again in 2011, only … three percent of executive board members in Germany's top 200 companies were women. In the same year, women held an 11 …

Executive and supervisory boards of large companies in Germany are still dominated by men - to an extraordinary degree … management boards has hardly changed at all in the last few years. It remains to be seen whether the plan to gradually increase … the number of women in management positions, as agreed upon in the German government's 2009 Coalition Agreement, will have …