# Germany enacts a 30 percent supervisory-board quota for women

Date: 2015

From 2016 listed companies with full co-determination had to fill 30 percent of new supervisory-board seats with women, under a 2015 statute. It is a completed corporate-governance act of her third term.

## People

- Angela Merkel: https://factrail.ai/people/angela-merkel

## Drivers

- Protection of Minority Rights: https://factrail.ai/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights

## Sources

- https://www.oecd.org/gender/data/women-in-management.htm
- https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/fuepog/BJNR064210015.html

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/de-board-quota-2015