The US President's executive order and pressure over companies' diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) programmes are continuing to have an impact on Germany's major multinationals. This time it is Siemens Energy that is abolishing quotas for women in management. However, as the recent ESG 2025 study by the Dresden University of Technology (TUD) points out, this setback is not just the result of Donald Trump's policies, nor is it uniform.
Following the executive order signed by the US President in January, which bans diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) programmes from any company with access to US public contracts, the German power plant manufacturing specialist Siemens Energy announced at the end of June that it was abolishing all quotas for women in its US subsidiary (12,000 employees). The group’s HR director Christina Schulte-Kutsch told the newspaper Die Welt that the subject was “emotionally difficult” but said the...
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Thomas Schnee
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