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The Elite will soon be Female

By Inge Kloepfer, Germany

September 30, 2005, Deutschland

Never have professional women been more successful than they are today. Never before have so many women attended university or gone out to work. And yet despite all these successes there are still very few women at the top. Although there are a lot more women than there used to be in the boss’s chair, the percentage of women in top jobs is still below average. However, scientists believe this is about to change, too: in future it will be impossible to ignore the increasing number of well-educated women used to be relatively alone as a woman,” recalls Inge Rösler and says that the word “exotic” comes to mind.

She began her career as a trainee at Deutsche Bank over 25 years ago. Today at the age of 52 she has come a long way and leads a large team in the bank’s credit-risk management section. “I was one of very few women, sometimes the only woman, in the classical lending business where I began my career,” she says. But “That has changed a lot,” she says. The reason: “Today, many women are much better trained and have good initial qualifications.” And yet, she adds, it has still not become much easier for them to reach management level. Competition for top jobs is hard, she says. And apart from that, even today it is usually left to women to work out how to organize a career and a family – and make the two compatible. Rösler knows; she has a grown-up son.