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The central cause of the women's movement during the time of the German Empire was the improvement of women's education and their access to professions and careers reserved for men. In 1888, the General German Women's Association submitted a petition to the Prussian House of Representatives asking for the admission of women to the studies of ...
With a rapidly ageing population, Germany is urgently looking at how it can get more work from a labour force that enjoys the most ample leisure time in the rich world. Government measures ...
Women were barred from government and university positions. Women's rights groups, such as the moderate BDF, were disbanded, and replaced with new social groups that would reinforce Nazi values, under the leadership of the Nazi Party and the head of women's affairs in Nazi Germany, Reichsfrauenführerin Gertrud Scholtz-Klink. [24]
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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 ...
Women in German Yearbook 1 (1985): 1-28. Clausen, Jeanette, and Jeannine Blackwell. “Yellowed Pages, Virtual Realities: Publication in Women in German's Past, Present, and Future.” Women in German Yearbook 20 (2004): 1-12. Joeres, Ruth-Ellen, and Marjorie Gelus. “Musing Together at Year Twenty.” Women in German Yearbook 20 (2004): 215 ...
Women's education has cognitive benefits for women as well. [13] Improved cognitive abilities increase the quality of life for women [ 12 ] and also lead to other benefits. One example of this is the fact that educated women are better able to make decisions related to health, both for themselves and their children. [ 13 ]