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  • DIW Weekly Report 13 / 2020

    STEM Careers: Workshops Using Role Model Can Reduce Gender Stereotypes

    Women continue to be underrepresented in STEM occupations (science, technology, engineering, and math). Based on a survey among secondary school students in Vienna, we show, for instance, that girls’ career aspirations, interests, and self-assessed skills in STEM fields are related to gender stereo- types. Parents also play a crucial role in this context. Further results indicate that a half-day career ...

    2020| Katharina Drescher, Simone Häckl, Julia Schmieder
  • DIW Weekly Report 10 / 2020

    The Gender Pay Gap Begins to Increase Sharply at Age of 30

    The gender pay gap increases with age: While the average gross hourly wage gap between male and female 30-year-olds is nine percent, the gap triples to 28 percent by the age of 50. This stark increase is due to differences in employment behavior in the decades between the ages of 30 and 50. Beginning at age 30, women often switch to part-time work to be able to provide childcare, whereas men tend to ...

    2020| Annekatrin Schrenker, Aline Zucco
  • DIW Weekly Report 4/5 / 2020

    More Women on Supervisory Boards: Increasing Indications that the Effect of the Gender Quota Extends to Executive Boards

    The statutory gender quota for supervisory boards is effective: the proportion of women on supervisory boards has increased over the past years, especially in the companies subject to the quota. But is the quota creating trickle-down effects for executive boards? As the second part of the DIW Berlin Women Executives Barometer, this report analyzes whether a relationship between the growth of the proportion ...

    2020| Anja Kirsch, Katharina Wrohlich
  • DIW Weekly Report 4/5 / 2020

    Proportion of Women on Top-Decision Making Bodies of Large Companies Increasing, Except on Supervisory Boards in the Financial Sector

    The share of women on executive boards of large companies in Germany has increased somewhat more strongly than in previous years. The top 200 companies reached the ten percent mark for the first time: women held 14 more board positions than in the previous year, 94 out of 907. Growth was also somewhat more dynamic on the executive boards of the largest listed companies and companies with government- ...

    2020| Anja Kirsch, Katharina Wrohlich
  • DIW Weekly Report 4/5 / 2020

    Boards of Major German Companies Are Gradually Changing: Editorial

    2020| Anja Kirsch, Katharina Wrohlich
  • DIW Weekly Report 38 / 2019

    Gender Quotas in a European Comparison: Tough Sanctions Most Effective

    Women remain significantly underrepresented in the top decision-making bodies in the private sector. Over the past few years, increasingly more European countries have introduced statutory gender quotas to combat this underrepresentation. Other European countries have instead relied on voluntary gender diversity recommendations in the national corporate governance codes. Statutory gender quotas are ...

    2019| Paula Arndt, Katharina Wrohlich
  • DIW Weekly Report 10 / 2019

    Strong Correlation between Large Gender Pay Gaps and Non-Linear Pay in Certain Occupations

    The gender pay gap of 21 percent in Germany is partly due to the fact that men and women work in different occupations. However, considerable pay gaps between men and women can also be observed within occupations, although the gap is not constant across occupations. In particular, there is a substantial gender pay gap in occupations with non-linear earnings, i.e. earnings increase non-linearly with ...

    2019| Aline Zucco
  • DIW Weekly Report 3 / 2019

    Women on High-Level Boards of Banks and Insurance Companies: Growth Coming to a Standstill on Supervisory Boards

    The proportion of women on executive boards of the 100 largest banks stagnated at almost nine percent in 2018. In the 60 largest insurance companies, the proportion increased by a good percentage point to almost ten percent. While growth on executive boards has been weakening in past years, it is now slowing down on supervisory boards in the financial sector as well. In 2018, the proportion of women ...

    2019| Elke Holst, Katharina Wrohlich
  • DIW Weekly Report 3 / 2019

    Increasing Number of Women on Supervisory Boards of Major Companies in Germany: Executive Boards Still Dominated by Men

    The gender quota for supervisory boards is continuing to show its impact: the proportion of women on the supervisory boards of the 200 highest-performing companies in Germany increased by over two percentage points to 27 percent the past year. In the 100 largest companies, it increased by over three percentage points to 28 percent. However, there are now indications that the companies are only doing ...

    2019| Elke Holst, Katharina Wrohlich
  • DIW Weekly Report 34/35 / 2018

    Differences in Full-Time Work Experience Explain almost a Quarter of the Gender Pay Gap in Management Positions

    Women still earn less than men on average in Germany. This applies to management positions even more: between 2010 and 2016, there was an average gender pay gap of 30 percent in gross hourly earnings. If gender-specific differences in relevant wage determinants are excluded, a pay gap of 11 percent remains. With seven percentage points, full-time work experience explains the gender pay gap to almost ...

    2018| Elke Holst, Anne Marquardt
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