Female employees at Deutsche Telekom AG, the most prominent telecommunication company in Europe, are getting their women day's gift a little late as the company plans to commence a quota for women in management with an intention of having at least 30% upper and middle management positions grabbed by females by 2015. It has only 13% of them as reported in 2008.

Terming the quota as a necessity for success, Chief Executive Rene Obermann said on Monday this rise in percentage of having females at good positions is a social fairness issue.

"Taking on more women in management positions is not about the enforcement of misconstrued egalitarianism. Having a greater number of women at the top will quite simply enable us to operate better", stated Obermann.

The company claims that the quota will be the Germany's DAX index of blue-chip stock's first functional gender quota. The target has been planned to chase by the help of executive development programs and recruitment policies with recruitment of female university graduates and about 15,000 management positions globally. The company has 258,000 employees with 52% in Germany.

Appreciating the Deutsche Telekom's initiative, the German Government Minister of Family Affairs, Kristina Schrödersaid that for reaching as gender balance, quotas should be last in the list.