Union blocked Board rate: the proportion of women in Topentscheidern rises only slowly

Union blocked the Board of management quota
Proportion of women in Topentscheidern rises only slowly

The proportion of women in leadership positions in German businesses is rising only very slowly. The rate is currently a database analysis of the business information Agency Crifbürgel according to 24.9 percent, such as from a table, which is present the German press Agency.

That’s not even a percentage point more than a year ago – at the time, Crifbürgel had determined a value of 24.2 percent.

The organization of women in the Supervisory boards (Fidar) asked again with emphasis, an expansion of the mandatory quota on Supervisory boards of listed or co-determined companies. “That would be the lever to achieve significantly more effective and bring far more women in leadership positions,” said Fidar-Head of Monika Schulz-Strelow of the dpa. “The binding quota for women makes all the difference.” In the case of the 105 companies that are already subject to a statutory rate, there was a “greater progress”. However: “the smaller the companies are, and the less you are in the Public domain, the lower the proportion of women in leadership positions.”

At the tip of Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Saxony, each of a proportion of at least 30 percent Crifbürgel that. The conclusion of the lights were Bremen (22.5 percent) and Baden-Württemberg (22,8). That East German länder are at the top, would “certainly with the self-understanding in Eastern Germany, both parents work,” said Schulz-Strelow. “In principle, the values for all provinces, however, are disappointing. Equality in managerial positions in the economy is a total German question, for all of us.”

Crifbürgel examined for the study nationwide, a total of more than 900 000 companies, regardless of their number of employees. In March 2018 the ratio of women was higher at 22.6 percent.

Companies of a certain size – usually from 2000 employees – need to post since the beginning of 2016 released at the end of the Supervisory Board with women neubesetzen, up to at least a share of women of 30 percent is reached. Requirements for the staffing of the boards yet. Federal Minister of family Affairs Franziska Giffey and Minister of justice, Christine Lambrecht (both SPD) had presented a draft law that is on the ice, because there is opposition in the Union. In the coalition Committee at the end of August, it was agreed to establish a working group to defuse the conflict.