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 …

, legislators have increasingly required information on non-financial aspects, such as the shares of women in leadership positions …. Using a quantitative text analysis of annual reports, this second report in the 2023 DIW Berlin Women Executives Barometer …. Reporting about women and leadership positions increased overall between 2009 and 2020 in line with the requirements. However …

gender balanced. Our paper builds on social identity theory to examine the impact of corporate elites—men and women who sit … the presence of multi-board women and other women on management boards is positively related to gender diversity on boards …Although we can observe noticeable progress in gender diversity on corporate boards, these boards remain far from …

, particularly inflexible working structures for managers, which ensure that women are hardly represented in middle management …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 …