With Angela Merkel set to run the country,Germany's businesswomen hope that the country's first Bundeskanzlerin - female chancellor - will do a thing or two to help working women, bring more female power to the boardroom and perhaps raise the chronically low birth rate in the process.
"She's got a raft of problems to deal with, but I hope she tackles the problem that so many women still have to choose between a career and a family in this country," said Regine Stachelhaus, Germany's businesswoman of the year.
A lack of day-care facilities for infants and traditional half-day schooling force many new mothers to stay at home. They may by law return to their jobs for up to three years, but those that do often find they have lost ground to men.
Among the 197 executive board seats at the Dax 30 leading companies, only two are occupied by women: Karin Dorrepaal at Schering and Christine Licci at HVB.
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