Something from the "Trends that nobody needs" category: The proportion of women on the top floors of German stock market heavyweights has fallen for the first time in years. As of September 1, 2020, there were 23 managers in the 30 Dax companies on the board, as if from one Investigation of the non-profit Allbright Foundation emerges. A year ago it was 29. The proportion thus decreased to 12.8 percent – This is the first decline since the first study in 2016. Accordingly, there were eleven of the 30 DAX companies without a single female executive on the board of directors. There is that in all The proportion of women on the executive board is therefore less than 30 percent. In only four companies have several female managers on the top floor. These include Allianz, Daimler, Deutsche Telekom and Fresenius Medical Care. In contrast, 97 percent of large US companies and 87 percent of top French corporations have at least two women on their boards.
In an international comparison, Germany is therefore falling further behind: In the USA, female managers make up 28.6 percent, in Great Britain 24.5 and in France 22.2 percent.
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