With Angela Merkel, a woman has headed for years, the Federal government. However, the female policy, talent is scarce. Who has no family, has to prove himself. Anyone who has children, it must also. A Dilemma.
“Gentlemen and ladies”: these are, actually, simple words, started on 19. In February 1919 a speech in the Weimar national Assembly, which should go down in history also because of their content, but mainly because these words came from a woman. With Marie Juchacz, a female politician spoke for the first Time in Germany in front of a democratically elected Parliament. Only three months earlier, the right of women to vote became law.
Marie Juchacz, SPD politician, and pioneer of her time
The SPD politician Juchacz was one of 37 women who moved in 1919 to the Parliament. Nearly nine percent of the members represented you at the time. Today, almost 100 years later, 37.1 per cent of the Bundestag mandates to women. Thus, they are represented in the German political landscape. In an international Ranking of women’s quotas, Germany is ranked 22 out of 190. If you believe the latest polls, this could worsen with the Federal election in September: Then, the proportion of women under the dome of the Reichstag building to fall to 32 percent.
Three children, and 80 hours of work per week
Dorothee Bär (CSU), between two male colleagues: “It takes a very thick skin”
You do not want to or is it for women simply more difficult to make policy for the main job? Dorothee Bär (CSU), member of the German Bundestag, believes that women prove to be stronger and need to claim. Young ladies without children in particular would be evaluated critically and often not taken seriously. A politician then but a child, would you count the night in a hurry. “It takes a very thick skin. And I have to admit that my own coat is also from child to child thicker”, so bear in the DW-Interview. Has three children and works per week 70 to 80 hours. If it is in session for weeks without family in Berlin, can it be more. “There is none waiting in the evening for me.”
In addition to the women’s quota introduced by the CSU in their district boards, and the party’s Executive Committee, there is now also Mentoring programs. With “women” must not be done. This would also have to want to, said Baer in an interview with DW. Many of their Friends have small children and a Half a day. A Job in politics, but always at least full-time. “And – I say this quite frankly – don’t want to do that to many.”
More women, more success
In the case of the Christian Democrats and the Christian social 79 women 230 Union men are just. Also, the CSU-Vice-Chairman Barbara Stamm looks at your party is still much air upward. “The whole party must know that we need to shape a successful future for the face of the CSU with women,” the 72-Year-old. The others have already implemented. Green and Left are represented in the Bundestag even just with more women than men. You have taken your chances faster.
Hannelore Kraft (SPD): group Chairman, Chairman, Minister-President
As the SPD politician Hannelore Kraft, after the state election, 2005 North Rhine-Westphalia, says the Interview of the political scientist Wichard Woyke from the University of Münster in the DW. At that time, the SPD had lost votes. “Women’s power has then been accessed.” First of all, you took over the group’s presidency, was later elected the new Chairman of her party and finally, in 2010, the Prime Minister of your country.
A lot of work and a rough work environment
Political scientist Woyke: “lots of work”
Family and political career up to the Bundestag – that is, Woyke, the duration is not feasible. “Unless I have a man at home that does just as Hausmann and as a children’s guardian and everything.” The come sometimes, but very rarely. Must set on enormous lot of work and sometimes very harsh climate. “Even if the direct behavior patterns improved compared with women, dominated the politics in their structures masculine,” says the political scientist.
Also, Dorothee Bär (CSU) gets to feel again and again. While they would always ask how you are doing this for the children, I must answer her husband – also a politician – this question never. “Since it is apparently assumed that the runs somehow.”
The question of power and sensitive issues
And then there is that thing with the Power. Too much Like a wife should not Express prefer, the have the same Objectionable something, so bear. Despite all of this, it is worthwhile to go as a woman in politics, because women have other approaches and other approaches – particularly with regard to certain topics. So she would have to be consulted in their citizens ‘ consultation hours, for example, after artificial insemination, and infertility in the Partner. Their male colleagues, says Baer, would never asked such questions. “What also surprised me, because it would be something to discuss even with a man.”