The German government on Thursday unveiled plans to make it easier for trans people to officially change their first name and gender, acknowledging that existing legislation was outdated and "humiliating".
Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) is planning for equal representation of women within the party, according to sources. Here's how and why.
Language is always evolving, thanks to a mix of social change and Jugendsprache (youth talk). But can German language ever be gender inclusive? We dug deep to find out how the current gender language revolution started and where it might go.
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.
The German government on Wednesday approved a draft law allowing a third gender option on birth certificates for babies who are not distinctly male or female.
Germany's new interior minister Horst Seehofer has outraged critics by appointing an all-male team to lead his ministry. The Twitterverse was quick to mock a photo of a row of old white men in suits.
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?
An elderly lady from Saarland has taken her bank all the way to Germany’s highest court in protest at having to fill out forms that address her as a man.
Germany's top court on Wednesday
required parliament to legally recognize a "third gender" from birth, potentially making it the first European country to offer intersex people the option of identifying as neither male nor female.
From a transgender teddy bear to
a fearless girl pirate, children's authors are tackling gender norms like never before, as debate rages about what it means to be a boy or girl.
It’s been about a year since The Local’s Shelley Pascual joined the team’s Berlin bureau. As she sets sail for challenges new, she reflects on her hopes for Deutschland’s future.
Germany is moving to close the pay gap between men and women with a proposed new law agreed in principle by the government's ruling coalition parties Thursday.
The Social Democratic Party (SPD) want to introduce a law allowing women to see what their male colleagues earn, in an attempt to level the gender pay gap.
A thorough medical check-up awaits anyone who applies to join Germany's police or fire service. But transsexual or intersexual applicants probably won't make the cut, it emerged on Friday.
Germans proved to hold less progressive ideas about gender equality than their European counterparts in the UK and France, but rose above the United States, according to a new report.
A new study shows that German women are some of the most pessimistic in the developed world about the effect starting a family will have on their career.
The German parliament (Bundestag) voted on Friday to pass a bill that will force large companies and the government to hire more women managers and executives, following a bitter fight.
Statistics from the European Union statistical office (Eurostat) showed on Thursday that women working in Germany earned 21.6 percent less per hour than men in 2013, only a small improvement over the gender pay gap in 2008.
