"I am giving businesses one more year to take care of this themselves," Barley told the media group RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland. "This can't continue," she said, noting that decades of urging industry to put more women in high-ranking positions had achieved very little. "I would have no problem with a mandatory quota for women on management boards," she said. But the participation of women in management boards, the circle closest to the chief executive, remains low. The economic think tank DIW has calculated that women take up just 6.5 percent of executive positions in Germany's 106 largest firms.

Source: The Local August 16, 2017 09:22 UTC