The representation of women on supervisory boards of Germany’s largest publicly owned companies is slowly increasing, but progress remains sluggish, according to a new analysis published on Thursday. As of January 1, 2024, women held 38.7% of supervisory board seats in the 261 largest companies owned by Germany’s national or state governments, up just 1.6 percentage points from the previous year, according to the analysis by the group Women in the Supervisory Boards (FidAR), which was made available to dpa. FidAR highlighted that the previous year had seen a similarly modest increase of 1.3 pe…