Away by looking we time what comes basically, going to the ICH know what ich wants tactics girls have better grades than boys, students make better degrees than their male colleagues, women’s representative in the cut and mentors strive for years to coach women at the top. And yet still the “topless” motto in the boardrooms of most companies. The economic elite remains dominated by the y chromosome. Why is it that the majority of women in the Germany of the 21st century is still absence, when it comes to career and financial success? The prerequisites that women fill the employment gap, are as good as ever, because they have greatly improved their qualifications in the past decades and long since overtaken the men in some areas. In many European countries, they already represent the majority of graduates. On the labour market is of but little more.
This contradiction has recognized the European Community and now wants raise the female employment rate to a level of 70 percent by 2020. Also the World Economic Forum warned companies, to the female potential better and make them usable to the economy. This message has already arrived at many companies, and they have the theme of promotion of women”on their agenda set. In numerous conversations we have had in recent months with companies, it becomes clear that companies the problem of lack of female executives are well aware”, says Melanie Vogel, initiator of the women & work, first nationwide fair Congress for the careers of female executives, who on May 14, 2011 for the first time held in Bonn takes. They use the trade fair Congress women & work to recruit women specifically, because they want to increase the proportion of women in their companies and offer very exciting career opportunities for women.” The glass ceiling – truth or Mar? It is all the more surprising that women in leadership positions so are under-represented.