Mopping up Dieselgate: The woman transforming Volkswagen
"We are still busy with the root cause analysis," Ms Werner explains. The origins of the Dieselgate scandal, she maintains, are"complex" but that VW felt it was"too big to fail" and there was not enough self reflection, employees thought what they did"in the context of the company, was good".
That task may prove to be even more daunting: Germany, as she points out, was one of last developed economies to get an anti-discrimination law, in 2006. At the time of writing, not a single one of German's top 30 firms has a female chief executive. The lack of progress within German business is in stark contrast to the country's political arena. Angela Merkel is in her 14th year as chancellor. Her most likely successor, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, is a woman, as is Andrea Nahles, who leads the main opposition party, the SPD.
Ms Werner makes an effort to do the opposite:"I don't want to be a woman dressed like a man, I often intentionally come in colourful dresses."
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