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Federal Minister of Justice Christine Lambrecht (SPD)
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Federal Justice Minister Christine Lambrecht expects a cabinet decision on the quota for women in the course of the coming month.
"Then it will go into the parliamentary procedure, so that we can still complete this important procedure in this legislative period in the summer," said the SPD politician on Tuesday in an interview with Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR).
The draft by Lambrecht and Federal Women's Minister Franziska Giffey (also SPD) provides that in future at least one woman should sit on the boards of listed companies with equal co-determination and with more than three members.
The working group set up by the coalition committee supports him across parties.
Lambrecht sees German state-owned companies like Deutsche Bahn as responsible for promoting women.
There, too, there must be a rethink with a view to the women's quota, Lambrecht said in the interview.
Your draft stipulates that companies with a majority shareholding by the federal government have a supervisory board quota of at least 30 percent and a minimum participation in executive boards.
A minimum participation is also to be introduced for corporations under public law such as health insurances and pension and accident insurance institutions as well as the Federal Employment Agency.
Lambrecht also wants more opportunities for women in politics.
She hoped that "at least as many women as men will be represented in the next federal government," the 55-year-old told the BR.
It “goes without saying that highly qualified people, highly qualified women, must get the opportunities they deserve”.
Again and again she was "surprised" that one still had to fight for it.
Critics of the women's quota, who claimed that this made gender a criterion when filling vacancies, she replied: "Now, at last, quality is the decisive criterion, and gender no longer plays a role," said Lambrecht.
"I think women have clearly shown that they are very well able to take on tasks on boards of directors."
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