Henrike von Platen

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Henrike von Platen (born January 16, 1971 in Bremen ) is a German business graduate in computer science and business administration (VWA) , management consultant and interim manager . In 2017, she founded the Fair Pay Innovation Lab , a non-profit company that supports companies in the practical implementation of fair wages and advocates more equal pay in everyday business. She regularly invites representatives from business, science and politics to exchange ideas in so-called Fair Pay Management Circles . Henrike von Platen was president of the women's network Business and Professional Women Germany from 2010 to 2016 and was the patron of the German Equal Pay Day campaign. With its equal opportunities association activity, it advocated equal pay for women and men in management positions and equal pay.

job

Henrike von Platen grew up in Bonn and Tenerife . She graduated from school in England and later completed a degree in business administration (VWA) in Berlin. Since 1998 she has been working as an independent management consultant with a focus on business development and location optimization. As an interim manager and managing partner, she has been working for companies in Berlin in the renewable energies sector since 2005 . In 2000, she and twelve other women founded the Hexensabbat Club , a shareholder association “to jointly invest in the stock market”, which grew to 30 women and was its managing director until 2010. In 2015 she was appointed university councilor at the Munich University of Applied Sciences and has been a lecturer for fair pay there since 2018 .

Gender equality policy

She has been a voluntary member of the federal board of the Business and Professional Women (BPW) association , one of the oldest and largest international women's networks, since 2008 . She was President of BPW Germany from 2010 to 2016. During her tenure, the association was particularly committed to the issues of women in management positions and gender-equitable wages. Henrike von Platen was the patron of the annual Equal Pay Day in Germany during this period . In 2011 she helped initiate the bipartisan Berlin Declaration , from which the campaign Top Women Ask Top Candidates emerged in May 2013. Together with the chairmen of other women's associations and politicians, she started the FairPay alliance for fair wages for women in June 2016 . As an active member, she is active in the women's network FidAR Women in the Supervisory Boards and the International Women's Forum IWF. She is the initiator of the online petition FairPay today .

Henrike von Platen is named as an expert v. a. Quoted and interviewed by quality media on the topics of women's quota and gender pay gap and invited to panel discussions. Under the motto Women and Work - Inequalities and Discrimination , at the invitation of the Federal Agency for Civic Education in 2016 , she discussed the reasons for the emergence of and combating pay inequality at a panel discussion. In 2018 and 2019 she was a speaker at the Reykjavík Global Forum - Women Leaders . On March 13, 2019, she opened the Fair Pay Global Forum with international experts as part of the 63rd Women's Rights Commission in New York. She was also a guest at the World Economic Forum 2019 as an expert .

Publications

  • Co-author of the research project Women in local politics in the new federal states on behalf of the Federal Government Commissioner for the new federal states . Final report , Berlin, April 12, 2013 (pdf)
  • Equal Pay Day in Germany . In: Exchange of good practices on gender equality, European Commission, June 2013 (pdf)
  • Equal Pay Day: BPW Germany gets a campaign rolling. In: A demand becomes a campaign. Seven years of Equal Pay Day. Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-8305-3428-0 , pp. 8-14.
  • Editor and Author: Neue Courage! Business and Professional Women (BPW) Germany 1931–2016 . Barbara-Budrich-Verlag, Leverkusen 2016, ISBN 978-3-8474-2012-5 .
  • Women with money, men with image problems. In: Vanessa Conin-Ohnsorge, Martina Lackner, Angelika Weinländer-Mölders: Side by Side: Men by the side of successful women. Haufe-Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 2018, ISBN 978-3-648-12096-5 .
  • Author in: Petra Nabinger (Ed.): Portrait of Successful Women: Giving tips on work, family and career. Littera-Verlag, Bad Dürkheim 2018, ISBN 978-3-945734-27-8 .
  • Author of the preface by Claudia Irsfeld: Women and Salary. How to negotiate calmly and successfully , Marie-von-Mallwitz-Verlag, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-946297-14-7 .
  • People talk about money. The quick way to equality . Nicolai-Verlag, Berlin 2020. ISBN 978-3-96476-031-9 .

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fair, accessed February 12, 2019
  2. ↑ more Equal Opportunities between Women and Men , accessed on February 23, 2019
  3. ↑ Steffen Vogel: Berlin women run an investment club with a lot of fun - and earn a lot with it. Witches' Sabbath in Charlottenburg. In: Berliner Zeitung , July 24, 2007.
  4. ↑ Carola Ferstl : Never bankrupt. The money guide for clever women. FinanzBook-Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-89879-427-5 , pp. 22-25 Preview in the Google book search
  5. ^ Henrike von Platen becomes a university councilor at the Munich University of Applied Sciences. Communication from the University of Applied Sciences Munich, October 23, 2015 (pdf)
  6. ↑ Andrea Och, Katharina Daniels: Lust for power: How (not only) women get to the top. Linde-Verlag, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-7093-0493-8 , p. 233.
  7. ↑ Henrike von Platen. In: The Huffington Post , March 2014.
  8. ^ A b Henrike von Platen, Ursula von der Leyen, Monika Schulz-Strelow, Markus Theunert, Thomas Sattelberger, Carsten Wippermann and others .: New courage! Business and Professional Women (BPW) Germany 1931–2016 . Ed .: Henrike von Platen on behalf of BPW Germany. Barbara Budrich Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-8474-2012-5 , pp. 90-106, 142 ff .
  9. ↑ Andrea Nahles : Good company and a new model for society. In: Denkwert Demokratie (Ed.): Roadmap 2020. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-593-39991-1 , p. 238.
  10. ↑ Gender Pay Gap. Who deserves what? Henrike von Platen calls for equal pay and more transparency , DRadio knowledge
  11. ^ Equal Pay Day. Anger to the Void: Why Women Earn Less. In: Der Tagesspiegel , March 19, 2015.
  12. ↑ Simone Smollack: Debate Equal Pay Day. 79 days more work. In: Taz , March 19, 2016.
  13. ↑ Initiators of the Berlin Declaration
  14. ↑ Anja Dobrodinsky: Fair Pay: New alliance for fair wages for women. ( Memento of August 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Inforadio RBB, July 5, 2016.
  15. ↑ FairPay Alliance
  16. ↑ WIN WOMEN in Germany , accessed on February 12, 2019
  17. ↑ The initiators - fairpay today. In: fairpay-heute.de. Retrieved July 20, 2016 .
  18. ↑ Below:
  19. ↑ Below: Gender dimensions of the financial market crisis: Does it affect women differently? Panel discussion with Henrike von Platen, Berlin School of Economics and Law, December 11, 2008. Why there are so few women in local politics , panel discussion, Brandenburg State Center for Civic Education, April 2, 2014. “Quality versus quota or quality through quota? " , Pro Quote Director, Berlinale 2016
  20. ↑ Women and Work - Inequality and Discrimination , APuZ-Forum on March 7, 2016 in Berlin. Audio recording ed. from: Federal Agency for Civic Education
  21. ^ Reykjavík Global Forum Women Leaders. Retrieved January 28, 2020 .
  22. ↑ Fair Pay Global Forum 2019: Female Leadership in Action. Retrieved January 28, 2020 .
  23. ↑ The FPI in Davos: Gruezi, future! Retrieved January 28, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Platen, Henrike von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German business economist and lobbyist for women's politics
DATE OF BIRTH 16th January 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen