FidAR - women on supervisory boards

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Women on Supervisory
Boards (FidAR)
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legal form Non-profit registered association
founding November 7, 2006 in Berlin
Seat Berlin , Germany
main emphasis Increase in the proportion of women on supervisory boards of German companies
Chair Monika Schulz-Strelow (President), Elke Benning-Rohnke (Vice President)
Members about 700
Website www.fidar.de

FidAR eV is a non-partisan and national initiative that was launched in 2005 by women in management positions in business, science and politics and founded as an association in autumn 2006. FidAR eV pursues the goal of a sustainable increase in the proportion of women on the supervisory boards of German companies.

Aims and demands of FidAR

In order to achieve the goal of sustainably increasing the proportion of women on the supervisory and executive boards of German companies, FidAR demands the following mandatory measures in particular:

  • A statutory minimum quota of 30 percent women on the shareholder side of the supervisory boards of all private and public companies that have a co-determined supervisory board
  • Effective sanctions in the event of non-compliance with the binding minimum quotas
  • Increasing the technical competence of all members of the Supervisory Board, in particular through adequate qualification measures
  • Greater transparency when filling supervisory board positions

FidAR first recorded and published the main demands of the initiative on October 1, 2008 in the so-called "FidAR Declaration".

Emergence

FidAR was founded on November 7th, 2006 by Sabine Bangert , Anke Domscheit-Berg , Sibyll-Anka Klotz , Eva Kreienkamp , Brigitte Lammers, Monika Schulz-Strelow and Jutta von Falkenhausen. The manager magazin counts FidAR among the "important networks of the German business elite".

The most important impetus for founding FidAR was the realization that the voluntary "Agreement between the Federal Government and the umbrella organizations of German business to promote equal opportunities for women and men in the private sector" of July 2, 2001, made insufficient progress in strengthening the proportion of women in Has brought management positions in business. A study by DIW in August 2005 showed that only 7.5 percent of the supervisory board members of the 100 largest companies in Germany were women and that over 80 percent of these women were posted by the employees.

FidAR in Germany

FidAR is based in Berlin and has regional representations in Hamburg, Cologne, Munich and Frankfurt am Main. The FidAR networks in the regions partly cooperate with companies and associations that are committed to the goals of FidAR.

FidAR owes its success to its high level of networking with politics and women's associations and clubs. FidAR's cooperation partners are:

Activities and events

The annual FidAR forum is at the center of FidAR's extensive event activities. The event, sponsored by the Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth , has developed into one of the most important forums for women in management positions in Germany and has given a number of important impulses for the public debate on this topic:

  • On the occasion of the first FidAR forum on September 16, 2009, then Minister for Women Ursula von der Leyen published a step-by-step plan to increase the proportion of women on supervisory boards in the private sector and public companies. This step-by-step plan later became part of the coalition agreement between the CDU , CSU and FDP of October 26, 2009.
  • As part of the FidAR Forum II on March 15, 2010 in the French Embassy in Berlin , the then HR Director of Deutsche Telekom AG , Thomas Sattelberger , announced the voluntary introduction of a quota for women in management positions at Telekom for the first time. At least 30 percent of the company's top and middle management positions should then be filled by women by 2015.
  • Since the beginning of 2013, FidAR has been involved in the alliance for top women, to which a total of ten women's associations belong, all of which advocate quota regulations in the economy.

Women on Board Index

In February 2011, FidAR published the Women-on-Board Index for the first time. The WoB index is the first ranking of the 160 companies listed in the DAX, MDAX, SDAX and TecDAX stock exchange segments according to the cumulative proportion of women on supervisory boards and executive boards.

Berlin declaration

FidAR belongs together with Business and Professional Women Germany eV, Deutscher Juristinnenbund eV, Deutscher Landfrauenverband eV, European Women's Management Development and Association of German Entrepreneurs (VdU) eV as well as members of the Bundestag Dorothee Bär , Ekin Deligöz , Sibylle Laurischk , Cornelia Möhring , Rita Pawelski and Dagmar Ziegler on the initiators of the Berlin Declaration . The initiative calls for “a quota on the supervisory boards of public companies that are listed and subject to co-determination, which should initially be at least 30 percent”. The prominent first signatories include the Vice President of the EU Commission Viviane Reding , Federal Labor Minister Ursula von der Leyen , the Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia Hannelore Kraft , the Prime Minister of Saarland , Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer and the Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Axel Springer AG , Peace Springer .

Legislative initiative for statutory minimum quota

Members of the FidAR executive board are heard as experts at hearings at federal and state level and have worked on the legislative initiative of Alliance 90 / The Greens to introduce a statutory minimum quota for women on supervisory boards. The draft law was presented to the Bundestag on October 13, 2010 by Renate Künast , leader of the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen parliamentary group , and rejected by the German Bundestag on December 2, 2011 in a roll-call vote.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statutory minimum quota for women of 25 percent required for supervisory boards, two-week service, October 20, 2008, accessed on September 10, 2012 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zwd.info
  2. ↑ Monika Schulz-Strelow - The “cheeky face” for the women's quota, Handelsblatt, May 19, 2011, The woman behind the women's quota, Die Zeit Online, September 8, 2011 , Fight for female supervisory boards - Why women should manage the financial crisis, Spiegel Online January 4, 2009
  3. ↑ Self-image of FidAR, accessed on September 1, 2012
  4. ↑ Strictly confidential !, manager magazin, 2/2011.
  5. ↑ Women in leadership, emotion, 01/2012
  6. ↑ Managers in international comparison: women on supervisory boards in Germany mostly delegated by employee representatives, DIW weekly report No. 35/2005 (PDF; 168 kB)
  7. ^ FidAR in the regions, accessed on September 10, 2012
  8. ↑ Homepage FidAR, FidAR Forum 2017, Link , last accessed on August 19, 2017
  9. ↑ growth. Education. Cohesion. ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Coalition agreement between the CDU, CSU and FDP, October 26, 2009, accessed on October 6, 2012  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cdu.de
  10. ↑ Ask the homepage of top women
  11. ↑ Women-on-Board-Index, accessed on September 10, 2012 ( Memento of the original from June 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fidar.de
  12. ↑ 160 companies, one boss, manager magazin online, February 17, 2011
  13. ↑ Initiators of the Berlin Declaration
  14. ^ Berlin declaration
  15. ↑ First signatories of the Berlin Declaration, accessed on September 10, 2012 ( Memento of the original of February 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.berlinererklaerung.de
  16. ^ Draft of a law on gender equitable composition of supervisory boards, Bundestag printed paper 17/3296, accessed on September 10, 2012 (PDF; 197 kB)
  17. ↑ Greens demand 40 percent, the daily newspaper, October 13, 2010
  18. ↑ Extract from DIP, the documentation and information system for parliamentary processes, accessed on September 10, 2012