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is just the new DIW Weekly Report on women in management and supervisory boards large companies in Germany, published

has also launched a new DIW-managers Scoreboard presented.

Elke Holst / Julia Schimeta: 29 of 906: In addition very few women in top boards of large companies / Not used crisis: leadership positions of large financial firms continue to be in the hands of men. In: DIW Berlin Weekly Report, 3 / 2011

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http://www.diw.de/documents/publikationen/73/diw_01.c .366825.de/11-3-1.pdf

leadership positions continued to rise firmly in the hands of men

women in management and supervisory boards only marginally

in the supervisory boards and Boards in Germany there are still few women. More than 90 percent of the 100 largest companies have not a single woman on the board. After the public today DIW managers Barometer 2010 in the proportion of women on the boards of the top 200 companies was 3.2 percent, in the largest 100 and the DAX 30 companies, even a meager 2.2 percent. "This is a clear sign that voluntary commitments are not enough as before," DIW expert Elke Holst said at the launch of DIW Manager internal barometer. "If companies want to increase the proportion of women in significant leadership positions, they should be binding targets and those within fixed time frame to implement. "

The new figures from the DIW Berlin to show that the share of men on the boards of the 200 largest companies in Germany (outside the financial sector) is overwhelming. Extent to which a decline can be two percentage points to 96.8 percent in the past five years, hoping to improve the situation remains to be seen. "Companies are already in 2001 called for more women in leadership positions," recalls Elke Holst "In light of this promise is a gain of 18 seats compared to 2006 simply too little." 877 of 906 executive position in the major 200 companies are occupied by men.

banks have opportunities were lost

cloudy it looks for women, according to DIW-managers business climate in the financial sector. There are more than half of employees are women. For banks and savings it had come from the financial crisis to massive changes in the management and supervisory boards - the hope that this will also increase the proportion of women, but has not met: the proportion of women on the boards here is at 2.9 percent and to only 0.4 percentage points higher than in 2006, the insurance it will decide by 2.5 percent on the initial level of 2006. 90 of the 100 largest banks and savings banks in Germany have all-male board members, even with the insurance companies there are more than 80 percent.

Only one financial institution in Germany, Hypo Real Estate has, since May 2010, a female CEO. The reason for the marginalization of women is to Elke Holst in the corporate culture: "Very long hours and sacrifice for the operation are usually regarded as an important qualifier for executives". This was not just a problem for women - and men who want to take care of, besides the work for her family, came in such a corporate culture not far away.

women in supervisory boards - mostly workers' representatives

are on the boards, at first glance more women on the boards: After all, 10.6 percent of the directorships in the top 200 companies are in women's hands. This is due to the participation rules, said Elke Holst. "More than 70 percent of women in supervisory boards are employee representatives" Only two of the 200 largest companies have a chairman: Henkel and the Würth Group - in both cases, the chairmen are from the family owners the company. In banks and savings is the percentage of women on the boards with 16.3 percent in the highest, while there is virtually no difference whether the house is public or private.

international comparison, Germany worse than China, Brazil and Russia

In the EU comparison, Germany is the proportion of women on the boards because of the participation rules in the middle. In contrast, from the boards it looks particularly bleak: Sweden, France and the U.S. but also China, Brazil and Russia will find in all these countries, more women in executive position than in Germany.

"On It would be best if companies rely even more women in leadership positions, "said Elke Holst That is in their own interest - because studies show that more women will be at the forefront for the company. Moreover, public support should grow to a statutory rate, as long as companies do not provide for themselves more women in top panels. "Rich lip service and non-binding letter of intent is no longer," said Holst "The companies are well advised to give quantified targets and implement them quickly."


DIW managers barometer
DIW-managers barometer monitors the trends in filling top positions in major German companies by women and men. Since 2006, this once a year, the number of women in management and supervisory boards of the 200 largest German companies evaluated. In addition, the development in the financial sector, therefore reflects the 100 largest banks and insurance companies. Moreover, special analysis of the DAX-30 companies and companies in the public sector will be presented this year.