WUNRN
GERMANY - "BERLIN
DECLARATION" CALLS FOR GENDER QUOTAS IN ECONOMIC DECISION-MAKING
23 December 2011
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On 15 December, female
representatives of all six political parties represented in Bundestag and the
Business and Professional Women (BPW), German Women Lawyers’ Association (djb),
German Rural Women’s Association, European Women’s Management Development
(EWMD), Women on boards (FidAR) and the German Association of Women
Entrepreneurs (VdU), adopted the ’Berlin Declaration’.
The Berlin Declaration calls for
the equal participation of women in the management and supervisory bodies of
companies. The first step should be binding legislation for minimum of 30% of
women in the supervisory boards of listed, public companies.
The initiators of the Berlin
Declaration seek to create a broad social alliance for effective measures to
implement the equal rights of women and men in economic decision-making.
Prominent women from the entire spectrum of politics, civil society and
business have already signed the declaration, including Minister Ursula van der
Leyen.
Read the Berlin Declaration and
sign it here
(In German).
The Berlin Declaration is the
first time that women across the political parties join their forces on the
issue of women’s representation in the upper echelons of economy and make joint
demands.
German women’s rights
organisations appreciate the joint effort of MPs, given the diverging views on
the subject within and between the parties. The Associations welcome in
particualr that the common position includes a requirement to legal action.
German Source for text and image:
http://www.berlinererklaerung.de/