Tag: Quota for women
Do women on Dax boards fail more often than men?
Dusseldorf When the sporting goods giant Adidas announced last week that HR manager Amanda Rajkumar was leaving the company after only two and a half years, it brought back memories…
Proportion of women in the top floors of companies at an all-time high
quota for women The proportion of women in management positions has recently increased, primarily due to legal regulations. (Photo: DigitalVision/Getty Images) Frankfurt According to studies, there are now more women…
The head of French Tech does not want to leave the future to men
Clara Chappaz The Frenchwoman has been promoting the start-up scene since 2021. (Photo: French Tech) Paris Clara Chappaz welcomes you to a sparse, small office in the Paris start-up center…
Sexual identity, age, origin – how important diversity is for business
Ferda Ataman The Federal Government’s Anti-Discrimination Commissioner promotes diversity in the world of work. (Photo: IMAGO/Jürgen Heinrich) Berlin The Federal Government’s Anti-Discrimination Commissioner, Ferda Ataman, criticized deficits in Germany on…
Spain’s President Sánchez announces quotas for women in politics and business
Pedro Sanchez At the beginning of the election year, the coalition government of Sánchez’s socialist party PSOE and the left-wing party Unidas Podemos are in trouble over a dispute over…
The quota for women is far from enough
Eggs with gender symbols Men are still clearly in the majority in important management positions. (Photo: unsplash, Montage: M. Becker for Handelsblatt) Making a choice is always hard – and…
Five reasons why board members in the Dax family are mostly men
Women are rarely in boardrooms At companies in the Dax, MDax and SDax, men are still in the majority. (Photo: E+/Getty Images) Dusseldorf More than half of the 160 largest…
Nicole Engenhardt-Gillé: Freenet gets its first board member
Nicole Engenhardt Gillé The manager has worked for Freenet in various management roles for 22 years. (Photo: Freenet) Dusseldorf Nicole Engenhardt-Gillé considers executives who share a position to be “forward-looking”.…
Nicole Engenhardt-Gillé: Freenet gets its first board member
Nicole Engenhardt Gillé The manager has worked for Freenet in various management roles for 22 years. (Photo: Freenet) Dusseldorf Nicole Engenhardt-Gillé considers executives who share a position to be “forward-looking”.…
The hunter in the Bundestag – the hunted in his party?
Friedrich Merz The CDU federal chairman and Union parliamentary group chairman speaks in the general debate on the budget in the Bundestag before Federal Minister of Economics Habeck and Chancellor…
Boss Renkhoff-Mücke on the imminent end of the construction boom
Entrepreneur Angelique Renkhoff-Mücke The boss of the awnings, blinds and roller shutters specialist Warema sees a lot of responsibility in the coming round of negotiations with the collective bargaining parties.…
Miele appoints Rebecca Steinhage to the management board
Rebecca Steinhagen Since 2019 she has been Senior Vice President Human Resources of the Gütersloh household appliance group. (Photo: obs) Dusseldorf The previous HR manager of the family company Miele,…
The new EU quota for women hits the German economy hard
Dusseldorf The EU’s new so-called gender quota, which the negotiators in Brussels agreed on late Tuesday evening and which is to apply from 2026, will hit the German economy hard.…
The new EU quota for women hits the German economy hard
Dusseldorf The EU’s new so-called gender quota, which the negotiators in Brussels agreed on late Tuesday evening and which is to apply from 2026, will hit the German economy hard.…
A new generation of supervisory boards monitors the Dax companies
Dax supervisory board members Dorothea von Boxberg, Sven Schneider and Sopna Sury (from left) The governing bodies of the 40 largest listed companies are changing more than ever before. Sopna…who?…
Top managers demand quota “now and without compromise”
Claudia Oeking The Philip Morris manager considers the changes to the EU directive on women’s quotas to be unacceptable. (Photo: Frank Beer for Handelsblatt) Dusseldorf German managers and entrepreneurs are…
Confectionery manufacturer Hitschler slips into the red
Philip Hitschler-Becker The entrepreneur sometimes has to stop production because of a lack of raw materials. (Photo: Hitschler) Hurth Philip Hitschler-Becker joined the Hitschler family business four years ago at…
“All Germans are underinsured”: The inflation dilemma of life insurance
Dusseldorf Life insurance is one of the most popular old-age provision products for German policyholders. “At the turn of the year, around 83 million life insurance policies were taken out,”…
30 percent quota of women on the supervisory board required
Anke Lesinski-Schiedat (l.), Susanne Johna (middle), Christiane Groß With an application, the doctors want to set a quota for women on the Apobank supervisory board. Frankfurt Several prominent medical professionals…
Female founders of the payment provider in an interview
The Makers What do you – or woman – have to lose when founding a company? (Photo: Getty Images) Dusseldorf They are a well-established team. Nina Pütz replaced Miriam Wohlfarth…