Topic Gender

DIW Women's Finance Summit 2017: Keynote Address by Brenda Trenowden

The gender gap in competitiveness: women shy away from competing with others, but not from competing with themselves

Women are less willing than men to compete against others. This gender gap can partially explain the differences between women’s and men’s education and career choices, and the labor market disparities that result. The experiments presented here show that even though women are less willing than men to compete against others, they are just as willing as men are to take on the challenge of ...

Womens Finance Summit 2017 : Opening Reception with German Minister of Defense Ursula von der Leyen

Keynote speech of German Minister of Defense, Ursula von der Leyen, on the opening reception of the DIW Women’s Finance Summit on May 22, 2017 in Berlin. Find more Information on the event here

DIW Women´s Finance Summit 2017

Almost ten years after the crisis, the financial sector is still in the midst of a far-reaching transformational process. The macroeconomic environment and regulatory frameworks are changing profoundly and fast, whereas new technologies challenge established players – both from the public and private sector – as never before. These developments and their implications for the financial...

Marcel Fratzscher about the DIW Women's Finance Summit 2017

The conference will take place on May 23, 2017 at Deutsche Bank Berlin, Unter den Linden 13/15.Almost ten years after the crisis, the financial sector is still in the midst of a far-reaching transformational process. The macroeconomic environment and regulatory frameworks are changing quickly and profoundly, whereas new technologies are challenging established players – both from the public...

Elke Holst about the DIW Women's Finance Summit 2017

The conference will take place on May 23, 2017 at Deutsche Bank Berlin, Unter den Linden 13/15.Almost ten years after the crisis, the financial sector is still in the midst of a far-reaching transformational process. The macroeconomic environment and regulatory frameworks are changing quickly and profoundly, whereas new technologies are challenging established players – both from the public...

Top decision-making bodies in large companies: gender quota shows initial impact on supervisory boards; executive board remains a male bastion

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. ...

Financial sector: Banks fall behind and now have a lower proportion of women on executive and advisory boards than insurance companies

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 ...

Do Women in Highly Qualified Positions Face Higher Work-to-Family Conflicts in Germany Than Men?

Changing employment conditions lead to new chances, but also new risks for employees. In the literature, increasing permeability between occupational and private life is discussed as one special outcome of this development that employees must face, especially those in highly qualified positions. Drawing on existing research, we investigate in how far women and men in those positions differ in their ...

Top Decision-Making Bodies in Large Companies: Gender Quota Shows Initial Impact on Supervisory Boards ; Executive Board Remains a Male Bastion

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. And in ...