Over the past year, the proportion of women serving on the executive and supervisory boards of the top 100 largest … largest insurance companies: on both executive and supervisory boards, the proportion of women has sunk to almost nine and 22 … percent, respectively. For over ten years, DIW Berlin has been investigating to what extent women are represented in the top …

The proportion of women on executive boards of the 100 largest banks stagnated at almost nine percent in 2018. In the … sector as well. In 2018, the proportion of women on financial sector supervisory boards remained at around 23 percent. If the … top bodies to be composed of equal numbers of men and women. Compared to men, women in the financial sector are less …

Prejudices and stereotypical beliefs about the role of women in society often limit their chances of reaching top … positions in Germany building on a review from a cross-national perspective of women's progress to high-ranking positions and of … initiatives to overcome the glass ceilingʺ. Suggestions are made for improving the situation of women in order to permit more …

The paper proceeds from the assumption that the inequalities of opportunity between men and women on the labor market …, structural and ideological barriers are identified as the reasons for this severe underrepresentation of women. Increasing the … percentage of women in management positions in the private sector would still require the support of upper-level (male …

leadership positions reported the highest level of subjective life satisfaction. For women, no statistically significant … differences were observed among women in high-level managerial positions, women who worked in non-high-level positions, and women … who specialized in household production, with no market work. Only women who were unemployed reported lower levels of life …

leadership positions reported the highest level of subjective life satisfaction. For women, no statistically significant … differences were observed among women in high-level managerial positions, women who worked in non-high-level positions, and women … who specialized in household production, with no market work. Only women who were unemployed reported lower levels of life …