According to an evaluation, in three out of four Dax companies, women achieve a worse career level than men on average.
Berlin Nine women are at the helm of one of the 160 largest listed German companies, the Allbright Foundation recently reported – just as many as men with the first name Christian. If one compares the careers of women with those of men, this picture still emerges: on average, they earn less, experience frequent career breaks due to child-rearing periods and are less frequently represented in the top management of large companies.
And even on the lower rungs of the career ladder, things are hardly better for women, according to an evaluation by Candidate Select (Case). The personnel consultancy has compared the hierarchy levels between men and women in more than 650 companies and has exclusively broken down for the Handelsblatt how pronounced the gap is in Germany’s largest stock exchange groups.
In almost three quarters of the DAX companies, women reach a lower hierarchy level than their male colleagues. There is parity in nine companies – in only one do women have slightly better career opportunities than men on average.
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