Margret Suckale is a pioneer

Wherever she went, she was the first: whether in 2005 on the Board of Management of Deutsche Bahn, in 2011 on the Board of Management of BASF or in 2013 as President of the Chemicals Employers’ Association – women had never before filled these positions. Margret Suckale belongs to the first generation of executive boards in German corporations.

For a long time, DIW listed her as the only woman among the approximately 550 members of the executive board of the 100 companies with the highest turnover in Germany: a pioneer, a woman like a beacon.
It was only ten years ago, hard to believe.

Today, of Margret Suckale’s early companions in the Dax, only Claudia Nemat is still in office at Deutsche Telekom, but she is nowhere near all that alone – meanwhile, 42 women work on the 40 group boards, at Nemat’s employer Telekom alone there are three. The extremely slow development has started to move last year.