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Berlin (dpa) - In the event of government participation after the federal election, the Greens want to enforce a stronger women's quota for listed companies.

The women's quota will be an important point in possible coalition negotiations, party leader Annalena Baerbock told the editorial network Germany (RND).

Baerbock called for at least 33 percent women to be represented on executive boards and 40 percent for supervisory boards.

There are also completely outdated rules, for example in company law.

This led, for example, to "that a board member has to resign because stock corporation law does not currently provide that a mother, for example, looks after her baby for a few months," criticized Baerbock before International Women's Day on Monday.

In the Foreign Service, women are still clearly underrepresented, especially in higher positions.

20 percent of the foreign missions would be led by women, after the next transfer date in the summer it should be 25 percent, the Foreign Ministry informed the "Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung" (Saturday).

The proportion of women in management positions in the senior foreign service is currently 24.5 percent;

the proportion of women in the foreign service is around 50 percent.

"In terms of recruitment, we have been able to almost achieve gender parity over the past ten years," the Foreign Office said, according to the newspaper.

In the case of department heads and their deputies in Germany, the proportion of women has risen from 27 percent to 43 percent over the past three years.

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Before International Women's Day there are also calls for the abolition of spouse splitting.

The chairman of the association women in the supervisory boards (Fidar), Monika Schulz-Strelow, told the newspapers of the Funke media group (Saturday): “The splitting of spouses seduces women to give up their jobs because the net wages are too low due to the bad tax bracket.

This can take revenge at the latest with short-time work, after a divorce or in old age with a mini pension, ”warned Schulz-Strelow.

The chairwoman of the women's union, Annette Widmann-Mauz (CDU), also complained in the “Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung” that the tax class V prevents women from being more gainfully employed.

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