EWMD Project
„WomenONBoard“
Topics
1. Objectives of the Project
2. Project Organisation
3. Project Plan
4. Status on Work Packages
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1. Objectives of the project – business case
Women are still playing a minor role in filling of top positions in
management and board of companies – despite
• The contribution of men and women based on their economic
and social education, competence and experience for companies
and organisations has – per se – an added value.
• The demand has increased to assign more qualified and
performance oriented people to the supervisory body
• A coherence between gender diversity on executive level and
the economic success of companies is obvious
• Due to the demographic development, organisations will and
must enhance their attractiveness for women with their
steadily increasing qualification
• Companies still ignore the fact that women are the decision
makers for consumer products or household investments
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1. Objectives of the project
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To leverage experience, best practices and successful
“women on board” projects in Nordic countries & UK for
Germany, Switzerland, Austria.
Initiative for
– pushing women to executive positions and
– making companies and the society aware of the mixed
leadership potential
The evolution of authority
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1. Objectives of the project – Work Packages
WP 1: Statistics
– Women on Board and Executive level in the top 100 companies in
Germany, 50 companies in Switzerland and Austria.
– Press release on “Women on Board census”
WP 2: Best practices (key success factors & barriers)
– To collecting key success factors and barriers for women on board
and executive level
– To verify these results with selective interviews (8-10).
WP 3: Contact Program and Award Concept
– To increase transparency for the nomination process for members on
Boards by collecting nomination criteria.
– To raise awareness of companies and nominations committees to
nominate women for exec positions (contact program with an award
for companies making progress in nominating women on Board).
WP 4: Qualification program
– To develop a qualification program for women for board position (list
of qualification standards, training / mentoring concept)
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2. Project Organisation
Project schedule,
payment flow
Project Team
Controlling Board
Doris Upton Jeckle
Doris Subeit
Bianka Lichtenberger
Review work packages,
recommendations
Project Steering Board
Claudia Schmitz
Anke Domscheit
Christine Raemy
Ursula Böhle
EWMD PR Reps
Advisory Board
Advice to project content,
recommended
Interview representatives
Overall responsibility: Gabriele Hantschel,
Project Manager: Carola Eck-Phillip
Research: University Cologne, Helga Stödter Foundation
Administration and additional support: Helga Stödter Foundation
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3. Project Plan
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Work Package 1: Press releases (2008)
Women on....
Germany:
Austria:
Switzerland:
Exec Board
Advisory Board
1,3%
2,3%
3,7%
9.6%
8,4%
7,6%
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Work Package 2: Best practices (key
success factors & barriers)
• Consolidate findings of international studies (last 3 years)
• Interviews with selected influencing women (8 - 10) to verify
success factors and barriers
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Extension of project scope:
Interviews and collected questionnaires of women on Board
in Management of WP 1 (sent out beginning of June):
– 39 letters in Germany
– 35 letters in Austria
– 17 letters in Switzerland
First Feedback within two weeks – which is excellent:
– Bertelsmann AG: letter of Brigitte Mohn with suggestion to
interview the HR director of Bertelmann
– Nestlè: telephone interview with Elke Strathmann
– TUI: completed questionnaire back
– Freudenberg & Co: personal interview
– Three cancellations
Corporate Members: interviews with women who are Board
Members or are working closely with them. Contact should
be established through CM contact person
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