“You are the minority”: a female DB engineer on assertiveness in a male domain. Only five percent of train drivers are female train drivers.
In catering, 50 percent are women. The proportion of women increases by a few tenths of a percentage point every year. The railway is lagging behind when it comes to renewing its infrastructure, but that is ancient even by the railway's standards. The rails were built in 1964, as an embossing reveals. “It’s definitely a mess at the railway,” says Anna Pfund.