Thema Gender

Veränderung der Erwerbs- und Familienbiografien lässt einen Rückgang des Gender-Pension-Gap erwarten

Die geschlechtsspezifischen Unterschiede im Rentenzahlbetrag der Gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung werden sich im Kohortenvergleich verringern. Während in der Kriegskohorte der 1936 bis 1945 Geborenen der so genannte Gender-Pension-Gap noch 56 Prozent in West- und 34 Prozent in Ostdeutschland beträgt, wird er sich basierend auf einem vom DIW Berlin entwickelten Fortschreibungsmodell zur Simulation von ...

No Gender Difference in Willingness to Compete when Competing against Self

We report on two experiments investigating whether there is a gender difference in the willingness to compete against oneself (self-competition), similar to what is found when competing against others (other-competition). In one laboratory and one online market experiment, involving a total of 1,200 participants, we replicate the gender-gap in willingness to other-compete but find no evidence of a ...

Day-Care Availability, Maternal Employment and Satisfaction of Parents: Evidence from Cultural and Policy Variations in Germany

This study investigates how the availability and expansion of childcare services for children aged under 3 years relate to the subjective wellbeing of German mothers and fathers. It extends previous studies by examining in more detail the relationship between day-care availability and use, maternal employment and parental subjective wellbeing during early childhood in a country with expanding childcare ...

Maternal Employment Effects of Paid Parental Leave

We study the short, medium, and longer run employment effects of a substantial change in the parental leave benefit program in Germany. In 2007, a means-tested parental leave transfer program that had paid benefits for up to two years was replaced by an earnings related transfer which paid benefits for up to one year. The reform generated winners and losers with heterogeneous response incentives. We ...

No Gender Difference in Willingness to Compete When Competing against Self

We report on two experiments investigating whether there is a gender difference in thewillingness to compete against oneself (self-competition), similar to what is found whencompeting against others (other-competition). In one laboratory and one online marketexperiment, involving a total of 1,200 participants, we replicate the gender-gap inwillingness to other-compete but find no evidence of a gender ...

Der Gender Pension Gap verstärkt die Einkommensungleichheit von Männern und Frauen im Rentenalter

Die geschlechtsspezifischen Unterschiede in der Höhe der Renten lagen im Jahr 2014 bei 42 Prozent in Westdeutschland und 23 Prozent in Ostdeutschland. Im vorliegenden Bericht wird dieser sogenannte Gender Pension Gap für vier Geburtskohorten bestimmt und seine zukünftige Entwicklung simuliert. Demnach wird der Gender Pension Gap für die jüngste Kohorte dieser Untersuchung – verglichen mit der ältesten ...

Rentenpunkte auf die Erziehungszeiten verringern den Gender Pension Gap nur leicht: Interview mit Christian Westermeier

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 ...

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 boards gained ...

Companies Should Have More Women on All Levels of the Hierarchy: Seven Questions for Elke Holst