Information on gender quotas

The proportion of women on the Board of Management of AUDI AG is also to be increased in the long term. The Supervisory Board of AUDI AG decides each year on the target quota of women on the Board of Management. Up until December 31, 2018, the Supervisory Board of AUDI AG had resolved a target quota of zero, for the sake of formality. There were no women on the Board of Management at the end of 2018. In the year under review, the target quota for the proportion of women on the Board of Management up until December 31, 2019, was resolved to be zero percent, for formality’s sake. However, it has since been possible to recruit one woman, Hildegard Wortmann, with high specialist expertise as member of the Board of Management for Marketing and Sales.

In addition, the legally prescribed quota of 30 percent applies to the Supervisory Board. As of December 31, 2018, there were 35 percent women on the Supervisory Board of AUDI AG. 

Audi is generally dependent on certain surrounding conditions because many areas of the Company need predominantly technical graduates. For that reason, we use the proportion of female graduates from each degree program as a guideline. Averaged across all degree programs that are relevant for the Company, the target proportion of women among new recruits has been determined to be around 30 percent.