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...Tatjana Breloh was a statistical rarity in Germany: a woman who had climbed to the top of her profession as managing director of Euro RSCG, a Dusseldorf ad agency. But in June 1997, Breloh, now 44, was fired. Her dismissal came a week after she received a $25,000 bonus for good work--and three days after informing the company that she was going to become a mother. "It was simple," she recalls. "I got pregnant, and I got fired...
...Breloh sued, and her case is now wending its way through the German courts. Her employer has denied firing her because of the pregnancy and said the discharge was the result of a company reorganization. However the courts decide, Breloh is part of a growing group of women who feel that German business routinely discriminates against them in management jobs by maintaining a barrier to upward mobility, or glass ceiling. Last year German female executives held just 9.2% of management jobs, according to Hoppenstedt, an economic publisher. In contrast, the International Labor Organization notes that in the U.S., the percentage...
...German women is a welter of decisions coming out of the European Union. A finding by the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg puts the onus on the employer to prove it did not discriminate when a pregnant woman is fired. That could strengthen the hand of women like Breloh--who has found a solution. She has set up her own agency with some of her former clients, and it is expanding. In the long run, if companies don't adapt to changing times, they may find that their former female managers have become their toughest competitors...
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