Tag: Quota for women
Christian Lindner helps in front of the gas station attendant – Handelsblatt Morning Briefing
In the fight against high petrol prices, Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) rejects a reduction in VAT or mineral oil tax. That would automatically make the state a co-beneficiary of…
New EU quota for women puts German companies under pressure
Dusseldorf Ursula von der Leyen already campaigned for equality between women and men when she was Federal Minister for Family Affairs and introduced, for example, parental leave and parental allowance.…
Disarm when gendering!
Big excitement, small effect. This is probably the best way to summarize the reactions on social media to topics such as the quota for women. Some consider quotas to be…
What the women’s quota achieves – and what does not
This emerges from an analysis of the board committees in Dax and MDax of the personnel consultancy Russell Reynolds Associates, which was previously available to the Handelsblatt. However, only those…
Macron wants a new security and stability order for Europe
Brussels, Berlin The speech before the European Parliament is a must for Emmanuel Macron. France has held the EU Council Presidency since the beginning of the year, and in this…
Macron insists on a strong and independent Europe
Emmanuel Macron “It is up to us Europeans to defend these principles and inherent rights of states’ sovereignty.” (Photo: Reuters) Strasbourg French President Emmanuel Macron wants to set the course…
Every seventh board member in the top 200 companies is female
Berlin Company board members in Germany have become more female – even if the legal minimum for women only comes into effect from August of this year. In the fourth…
Von der Leyen wants to push ahead with the EU directive
Brussels, Berlin The EU Commission sees a new opportunity for a Europe-wide quota for women. Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has discussed this with the French Presidency and with…
“We want to start into a decade of innovation”
Berlin The new Federal Education and Research Minister Bettina Stark-Watzinger (FDP) wants to push the new “German Agency for Transfer and Innovation” (Dati) in 2022. Its purpose is to ensure…
The Telekom supervisory board needs female power
Telekom Headquarters Bonn The Dax company is 32 percent owned by the state. (Photo: dpa) Once upon a time there was a new federal government that had big plans, especially…
Dare to be more powerful – women should get involved in supervisory boards
Advertisement from BASF After her career at the chemical company, Margret Suckale moved into several supervisory boards. (Photo: obs) Margret Suckale’s career as a multi-supervisory board member begins in 2017.…
Women see these hurdles on their way to politics
Berlin In the new Bundestag, just under 35 percent of the MPs are women. With around 30 percent women, the state parliaments are also far from parity. And sometimes only…
This is how unions and works councils think
With a traffic light coalition, there could soon be new regulations for more women in leadership positions. Before the election, the SPD and the Greens promised to expand the quota…
CDU women are to blame for their powerlessness
Angela Merkel The outgoing Chancellor did not enforce the women’s quota in the CDU during her time as party leader. (Photo: Reuters) Now they are complaining again, the few prominent…
You are not welcome in this company
Shadow of a man over a woman at a desk Professionally ambitious women should carefully examine whether female executives are even welcome in a new company. (Photo: Gary Waters /…