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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]
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 ...
The National Council of German Women's Organizations initiated the establishment of the CEDAW Alliance Germany, and serves as its host institution. It is a founding member of the European Women's Lobby and its largest national chapter. The council actively engages in advocating for women's rights and equality in politics, work, and within the ...
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).
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 ...
The emergence of women's movements and the discussion of women's rights was contingent on the French Revolution's goals to achieve universal equality. [5] [6] On 14 September 1791, French feminist Olympe de Gouges demanded equal rights for men and women. [7] During this period, the women's movement was influenced predominantly by class issues. [8]
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 ...
The Bund Deutscher Frauenvereine (Federation of German Women's Associations) (BDF) was founded on 28/29 March 1894 as umbrella organization of the women's civil rights feminist movement and existed until the Nazi seizure of power in 1933.