share of women on supervisory boards for 111 German publicly listed and fully codetermined companies (i.e. those which are … interpret this as an overall indication that women are not only underrepresented in German supervisory boards, they are even … more underrepresented in important board positions. Indeed, women are less likely to become a chairman and are less often …

Women typically earn less than men. The reasons are not fully understood. Previous studies argue that this may be … because (i) women 'don't ask' and (ii) the reason they fail to ask is out of concern for the quality of their relationships at …. Using matched employer-employee data from 2013-14, the paper finds that the women-don't-ask account is incorrect. Once an …

weakly associated with women's remuneration than with men's. This mainly reflects an interaction between unobserved … individual characteristics and firm recruitment policies. The kinds of firm that best identify and advance talented women are …

We explore the impact of mentoring of females and gender segregation on wages using a large longitudinal data set for … Portugal. Female managers can protect and mentor female employees by paying them higher wages than male-led firms would do. We … find that females can enjoy higher wages in female-led firms, the opposite being true for males. In both cases is a higher …

marked gender differences in the pay structure: namely, women CEOs receive a lower proportion of fixed to total compensation …. The model also suggests that a more balanced gender composition in companies' boards can help women close the gap in pay …

closes because women's wages rise with the share female managers in the workplace while men's wages fall. Panel and … we find a raw gender wage gap (GWG) in hourly wages of around 0.18-0.21 log points. The regression-adjusted gap is around … proposition that women are more likely to be paid equitably when managers have discretion in the way they reward performance and …

valuable for women's career advancement than for men's. On average, additional qualification signals increase male directors … networks matters for women's career advancement. We find that connections to male executives and executives who are members of … an old boys' club are more valuable for women than having access to all-female networks …

are the procedures a woman has to go through to start a business and the time for women to set up a business, while the …

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 …