Progress in closing Germany's gender pay gap appears to be slowing, official data showed Tuesday, with a much more pronounced gap in the west of the country than in the east.
Bright colours, rainbow flags and glitter: around 250,000 people demonstrated for tolerance and gender diversity at Christopher Street Day in Berlin on Saturday.
LGBTQ+ celebrations are taking place across Germany this summer. Here's a guide to pride events you won't want to miss in some of Germany's large cities.
A district in Hamburg allows women to swim topless at its public pools, but no one has really taken advantage of the offer. We look at what might be putting people off and where in Germany topless swimming is allowed for everyone.
In Germany, Switzerland and Austria, women are losing ground in the fight for pay equity, according to a recent analysis from the Munich-based Ifo Institute for Economic Research.
As Germany celebrates International Women’s Day, many foreign parents say the government should consider new measures to improve gender equality within households. Â
According to the Germany‘s Statistical Office Destatis, three out of four women working full-time earn less than men - and in some cases significantly less.
Germany did better on gender inequality in 2023 than in 2022, according to the World Economic Forum (WEF). But women working in the private sector aren’t seeing the same gains.
Germany will amend its guidelines for donating blood so the same rules apply to everyone regardless of their sexual orientation, the country's health minister said on Tuesday.
The German government on Friday unveiled a plan to protect sexual and gender minorities from discrimination, including a bid to anchor their rights in the constitution.
Germany's main opposition party, the centre-right Christian Democrats, on Saturday adopted a quota policy for women in senior leadership roles with a goal of gender parity by 2025.
A mosque in Berlin on Friday became the first in Germany to fly a rainbow flag in support of the LGBT community, ahead of two major gay pride events in the city this month.
The city-state of Hamburg has spoken out strongly in favour of mandatory labels on social media images in order to hamper false beauty ideals that may impact young women's mental health.
Women are still in the minority in the new Bundestag – they now account for 34 percent of parliament following last Sunday's general election, an increase of just three percentage points. Several prominent German politicians have some ideas on how to redress the balance.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned Saturday that the pandemic risked rolling back progress made on gender equality, as women take on the lion's share of childcare in lockdown and are more likely to work in at-risk jobs.
A German soldier has lost a court battle to keep his hair long. The court however said that lawmakers will need to find a justification for why the rule - which allows women but not men to have longer hair - continues to exist.
There have been more civil servant state secretaries called ‘Hans’ in the German government than there have been women, an investigation has found.
On Sunday the German government’s equality commissioner made headlines by suggesting that it was time to make the national anthem less macho. So will erasing the word fatherland do the trick?
Whether it is people touching their hair without asking, or bouncers rejecting them from bars, black people in Germany are used to being treated differently based on the colour of their skin.
