Angesichts der stetigen, überproportionalen Zunahme des Anteils an digitalen Dokumenten im Bibliotheksbestand wird die automatische Indexierung als einzige Möglichkeit angesehen, die Sacherschließung, die eine zentrale Informationsdienstleistung der Bibliotheken darstellt, auch zukünftig...

Wie kann der digitale Wandel in wissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken personell, organisatorisch und serviceorientiert gestaltet werden? Welche Auswirkungen hat die Digitalisierung für das professionelle Selbstverständnis? Drei Mitarbeiter*innen des Wissenschaftszentrums Berlin für Sozialforschung...

Women are still in the clear minority among the financial sector's top decision-making bodies. According to DIW Berlin's Women Executives Barometer, at the end of 2016, 21 percent of the supervisory and administrative board members of the 100 largest banks were female. The number has stagnated...

The gender quota for supervisory boards that has been mandatory since January 2016 has shown an initial impact. According to DIW Berlin's Women Executives Barometer, at the end of 2016, there were more women on the supervisory boards of the 106 companies subject to the statutory quota than one...

Germany's large corporations still have a long way to go before achieving balanced representation of men and women on their boards. At the end of 2015, the share of women on the executive boards of the top 200 companies in Germany was a good six percent, an increase of less than one percentage...

In the German financial sector, the majority of employees are women, but it is still men who hold the top positions. With women making up only 4.2 percent of the boards of the largest banks and savings banks, they were still vastly underrepresented at the end of 2012 (up 1 percentage point from...