The gender quota for supervisory boards that has been mandatory since January 2016 has shown an initial impact. According to DIW Berlin’s Women Executives Barometer, at the end of 2016, there were more women on the supervisory boards of the 106 companies subject to the statutory quota than one year before. Their proportion increased by a solid four percentage points to more than 27 percent. ...
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 compared to last year. Since 2010, when the discussion about the gender quota for supervisory ...
Nach wie vor sind Frauen in Spitzengremien des Finanzsektors deutlich in der Minderheit. Dem Managerinnen-Barometer des DIW Berlin zufolge waren die Aufsichts- und Verwaltungsräte der 100 größten Banken Ende des Jahres 2016 zu gut 21 Prozent mit Frauen besetzt. Damit stagnierte der Anteil gegenüber dem vorangegangenen Jahr. Auffallend ist die geringere Dynamik nach dem Jahr 2010 ...
The German labor market is characterized by marked occupational segregation between women and men. The median earnings in female dominated occupations are lower than those in male dominated professions. This is one of the reasons for the gender pay gap. However, there are also large differences in earnings between men and women within occupations. These profession-specific gender pay gaps are smaller ...
In Deutschland ist der Arbeitsmarkt von starker beruflicher Segregation zwischen Frauen und Männern geprägt. In typischen Frauenberufen wird dabei im Mittel weniger verdient als in typischen Männerberufen. Das ist einer der Gründe für den Gender Pay Gap. Zudem gibt es jedoch auch innerhalb eines Berufes zwischen Männern und Frauen zum Teil große Unterschiede in den Verdiensten. Diese berufsspezifischen ...
In this article, the influence of immigrant occupational composition on the earnings of immigrants and natives in Germany is examined. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study and the German Microcensus, several relevant concepts are tested. The notion of quality sorting states that the differences in wages that are associated with the immigrant share within occupations are due only to ...
Unter dem Titel "Arbeit 4.0 – Blind Spot Gender" findet am 22. September 2016 die 3. Gender Studies Tagung statt. Das DIW Berlin veranstaltet die Tagung in Kooperation mit der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. Eine Übertragung findet via Livestream statt.