Of everyone who has founded a startup in Germany, only around 16 per cent are women. For instance let’s take a look at the startup sector: in that environment, as a female startup founder – with a migration background – I’m clearly in the minority.

I find that I am also represented far too sparsely elsewhere in the workplace, including outside female supervisory and management boards. Personally I can only welcome this decision. For this reason, supporters of the quota now consider this impact on management – significant though it is – to be politically justified. That’s why the quota has been introduced, because it’s effective: there’s already been a mandatory female quota of 30 per cent since 2016 for supervisory boards.

Companies have not succeeded in promoting more women to senior roles with the voluntary system. To be specific: if there are more than three members of the management board, at least one of them must be a woman. In future, the boardrooms of listed companies will have to become more female. But work is being done at many levels to increase the presence of women. You can find all the information about the full 12-day program of Porsche at #IAA19 on the Porsche Newsroom.The German economy is still heavily male-dominated. All-day long, we will focus on new concepts, solutions, and applications on and off the road, always driven by digitization, automation - made for people. Existing Porsche partners from the technology and digital scene, start-ups from the Porsche Ventures program as well as futurologists, architects and programmers will take part. Porsche’s “Next Visions Day” at the IAA focuses on dialogue with different perspectives and different stakeholders. Discussing tomorrow - international technology experts visit Porsche Today, digital services such as integrated navigation services, driver assistance systems or intelligent services based on vehicle data are decisive criteria when Germans buy a vehicle. We have come to the point where digital is worth more than many hp. Every second citizen in Germany wants to buy an electric car or even an autonomously controlled vehicle.

If you believe a current BITKOM study, the car divides the Germans.

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