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Financial sector: Banks fall behind and now have a lower proportion of women on executive and advisory boards than insurance companies

Holst, Elke; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 7 (2017) 1/2, pp. 16-28

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...

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Top decision-making bodies in large companies: Gender quota shows initial impact on supervisory boards executive board remains a male bastion

Holst, Elke; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 7 (2017) 1/2, pp. 3-15

highest performing companies in Germany (eight percent). In companies with government-owned shares, the momentum has decreased …

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Financial sector: Share of women on corporate boards increases slightly but men still call the shots

Holst, Elke; Kirsch, Anja - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 6 (2016) 3, pp. 27-38

percent of executive board members of the 100 largest banks in Germany. The corresponding figure for the 59 largest insurance …, which was enacted in Germany in May 2015. …

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Corporate boards of large companies: More momentum needed for gender parity

Holst, Elke; Kirsch, Anja - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 6 (2016) 3, pp. 13-25

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 … present study. Germany’s companies still have a long and difficult path ahead of them in order to achieve increased …

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