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Germany's Reichstag had 32 women deputies in 1926 (6.7% of the Reichstag), giving women representation at the national level that surpassed countries such as Great Britain (2.1% of the House of Commons) and the United States (1.1% of the House of Representatives); this climbed to 35 women deputies in the Reichstag in 1933 on the eve of the Nazi ...
It was founded in 1951 and views itself as a successor of the Bund Deutscher Frauenvereine, that existed from 1894 to 1933. [2]The council, similar to the Bund Deutscher Frauenvereine, was traditionally an umbrella organization for the bourgeois or "bourgeois-liberal" women's movement, but over time developed a broader political profile as a result of a rapprochement between the bourgeois ...
The crimes of women in early modern Germany (Oxford University Press, 1999). Ruble, Alexandria N. Entangled Emancipation: Women’s Rights in Cold War Germany ((University of Toronto Press, 2023) online scholarly review of this book; Rupp, Leila J. Mobilizing women for war: German and American propaganda, 1939-1945 (Princeton University Press ...
Ambraser Heldenbuch, Fol. 149.Kudrun.The early sixteenth century epic collection Ambraser Heldenbuch, one of the most important works of medieval German literature, focuses largely on female characters (with notable texts being its versions of the Nibelungenlied, the Kudrun and the poem Nibelungenklage) and defends the concept of Frauenehre (female honour) against the increasing misogyny of ...
One in five women aged 65 or over is at risk of poverty in Germany, compared with 17.5% of the men, according to statistics office data. But still, Hart said increasing her working hours is not an ...
The association is a member of UN Women Germany and the European Movement in Germany. The association publishes the podcast Justitias Töchter about feminist legal policy. In 2024, the association marked its 75th anniversary with a conference on feminist foreign policy , where Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock spoke on the German government's ...
ADEFRA is considered the first grassroots activist group in Germany that was both by and for Black women. [6] The group's name, ADEFRA, is an abbreviation of "Afrodeutsche Frauen" (Afro-German women). [3] The name also came to be associated with an Amharic word meaning "the woman who shows courage." [1] [4]
During this period, the women's movement was influenced predominantly by class issues. [8] Louise Otto-Peters is believed to be the founder of the first middle-class women's movement which pursued the participation of women in education and politics. According to Otto-Peters, female participation in politics was a duty rather than a right.