Achtzig herausragende Persönlichkeiten jeder Couleur nehmen dazu Stellung, wie unser Land in den Bereichen Bildung, Wirtschaft, Arbeit, Gesundheit, Politik und Gesellschaft zukunftsfähig gemacht werden kann

Does electing female politicians increase women’s political representation? Using a difference-in-differences design on a comprehensive cross-national dataset, we find that the first election of a female incumbent systematically increases the share of women in government. To address selection...

Although many political authorities endorse the basic goal of parity between men and women across the board, reality does not yet reflect this in Germany. In the German Bundestag, for example, at present 37.1 percent of representatives are women. Divided among the six parties with the greatest...