Artikel
Top-level management in large companies: Persistent male-dominated structures leave little room for women
The aim of recruiting more women into top-level management positions in business is attracting increasing interest among the general public and policy-makers alike. Calls for a quota for women and the widely publicized appointment of four women to the executive boards of DAX 30 companies in 2011 still does not detract from the fact that women continue to play a 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 11.9 percent share of seats on supervisory boards, and over two-thirds of them were employees' representatives. There has been barely any change in the top 200 companies in comparison with previous years. The proportion of women in high-ranking positions in MDAX and SDAX companies is similarly low. The percentage of women in the prominent DAX 30 companies was 3.7 percent in 2011, which represents an increase of 1.5 percentage points from the previous year. In companies with government-owned shares- some of which are considerably smaller-8.2 percent of executive board members and 17.7 percent of supervisory board members are women. This goes to prove that women are also far from achieving gender equality in the boardroom. In comparison with 2010, the percentage of exclusively male supervisory boards even significantly increased: by 8.8 percentage points to 23.6 percent in 2011. The growing realization among policy-makers, business, and civil society that greater gender diversification in the boardroom is needed has yet to lead to the breakthrough hoped for in the appointment of women to executive and supervisory boards.
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Englisch
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Journal: DIW Economic Bulletin ; ISSN: 2192-7219 ; Volume: 2 ; Year: 2012 ; Issue: 4 ; Pages: 3-13 ; Berlin: Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
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Wirtschaft
Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining: Other
Labor Discrimination: Public Policy
Business Objectives of the Firm
Public Enterprises; Public-Private Enterprises
Corporate Culture; Diversity; Social Responsibility
Personnel Economics: Firm Employment Decisions; Promotions
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board diversity
women CEOs
gender equality
management
DAX companies
private companies
public companies
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Holst, Elke
Schimeta, Julia
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Veröffentlichung
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Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
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Berlin
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2012
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- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Beteiligte
- Holst, Elke
- Schimeta, Julia
- Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
Entstanden
- 2012
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