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The traditional role of women in German society was often described by the so-called "four Ks" in the German language: Kinder (children), Kirche (church), Küche (kitchen), and Kleider (clothes), indicating that their main duties were bearing and rearing children, attending to religious activities, cooking and serving food, and dealing with ...
From 1919 through the 1980s, women comprised about 10 percent of the Bundestag. The Green Party had a 50 percent quota, so that increased the numbers. Since the late 1990s, women have reached a critical mass in German politics. Women's increased presence in government since 2000 is due to generational change.
Feminism. The emergence of second-wave feminism was a key component of feminism in Germany. [1] The second wave (emerging during the first half of the 20th century) was heavily influenced by the policies of the Third Reich and its attitudes towards gender roles, and those of the postwar era.
Adolf Hitler rose to power in the 1930s with the support of millions of Germans, men and women alike. More than 30 essays written in 1934 and long forgotten shed light on why German women voted ...
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. This movement culminated in women's suffrage in 1919.
In Nazi Germany, women were subject to doctrines of Nazism by the Nazi Party (NSDAP), which promoted exclusion of women from the political and academic life of Germany as well as its executive body and executive committees. [1][2] On the other hand, whether through sheer numbers, lack of local organization, or both, [2] many German women did ...
Anti-German sentiment (also known as anti-Germanism, Germanophobia or Teutophobia) is opposition to and/or fear of, hatred of, dislike of, persecution of, prejudice against, and discrimination against Germany, its inhabitants, its culture, and/or its language. [1] Its opposite is Germanophilia. [2][3]
The German CSU's secretary-general Andreas Scheuer between 4 and 9 January tweeted: "It is unbearable that in major German cities, women are sexually assaulted and robbed in the street by young migrants"; [135] the CDU had between 4 and 9 January proposed in a draft announcement that allegedly suspicious refugees should be taken into custody. [135]