the driving factors are insecure low income poor career prospects and meagre chances of returning to fulltime work and germany lags far behind with women occupying only of seats on the boards of directors in foibes global companies in compared to the oecdwide average of since january women must account for of seats in the supervisor nonexecutive boardrooms of stocklisted and socalled codetermined companies large companies of or more workers where employees appoint half the members of the supervisory board about companies are affected by the requirement