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Feminism in Germany as a modern movement began during the Wilhelmine period (1888–1918) with individual women and women's rights groups pressuring a range of traditional institutions, from universities to government, to open their doors to women.
Today, it is a broad and representative umbrella organization for the German women's movement with 62 member organizations and 11 million members. The National Council of German Women's Organizations initiated the establishment of the CEDAW Alliance Germany, and serves as its host institution.
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 ...
Germany's ageing demographics mean its labour force is shrinking by 400,000 workers a year in what Chancellor Olaf Scholz's government acknowledges is a major long-term threat to Europe's largest ...
Prelinger, Catherine M. Charity, Challenge, and Change Religious Dimensions of the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Women's Movement in Germany (1987). Rowold, Katharina. The educated woman: minds, bodies, and women's higher education in Britain, Germany, and Spain, 1865-1914 (2011). Sagarra, Eda. A Social History of Germany 1648–1914 (1977, 2002 edition).
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 ...
Women in Germany earned 18% less on average than men last year, due largely to a levelling-off in earnings after having children and taking part-time work, the Federal Statistics Office said on ...
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]