Intersex person Michaela Raab is suing doctors in a Nuremberg court, who she said operated on her genitals and put her through female hormone therapy without having told her she was genetically a man.
Stay-at-home mums cooking lunch for the children while dads earn the money - Germans’ opinions on gender roles are more conservative today than they were in the 1990s, a survey revealed on Monday.
Germany on Friday became the first European country to allow babies born with characteristics of both sexes to be
registered as neither male nor female, but advocates urged further reforms.
Over a third of German men find it difficult to fulfill expectations, a study released on Monday suggested, while two thirds believe gender equality has already been achieved.
Germans will soon be legally divided into three genders - those born as hermaphrodites have the right to not identify as male or female. It has been described as a revolution, effectively creating legal recognition of a third sex.
Part-time and temporary work are more likely to give male breadwinners psychological problems - whereas women are more likely to suffer in full-time employment, a new study shows.
The University of Leipzig has voted to adopt the feminine version of the word for "professor" as its default. In German <i>Professorin</i> refers to a female professor while <i>Professor</i> is the male equivalent.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition defeated an election-year opposition bid Thursday to set a quota for female board members in a vote that exposed a party rift and forced her to give ground.
Women with facial hair used to be relegated to carnival sideshows, but one bearded lady is fighting for her right to remain unshaven. Mariam is The Local's German of the Week.
German men seem to be learning how to manoeuvre supermarket trolleys - and although women still do more shopping than their menfolk, the gap is shrinking, new data shows.
Most German car parks are too expensive, badly lit or are difficult to drive into, motoring association ADAC said on Monday after a carrying out a nationwide survey.
The executive boards of Germany's top companies are set to become 40 percent female, after the upper house of the parliament, the Bundesrat, voted for a gender quota on Friday. Two conservative states supported the centre-left proposal.
The number of women managers has risen over the past decade in Germany - but they are still earning significantly less than their male counterparts, a new study shows.
As Kinder Surprise launches a new egg wrapped in pink, containing fairies in push-up bras and labelled “just for girls”, a campaign is growing against such marketing. Pinkstinks Germany founder <b>Stevie Schmiedel</b> spoke to The Local.
Calling himself a proponent of equal rights, the mayor of a small town in the Black Forest has designated special parking spaces in the municipal garage for men - because they're harder to get into.
German Women's and Family Minister Kristina Schröder faced a storm of outrage as she presented her new book, <i>"Danke, emanzipiert sind wir selber!"</i> ("Thanks, we're emancipated ourselves!") in Berlin this week.
Most Germans would like to see firms adopt a voluntary quota to ensure that women hold a certain percentage of top management jobs – but only around one in four would like to see this enshrined in law, new figures show.
Millions of German woman may face poverty in old age, a government report revealed on Wednesday. Many of the country's part-time workers, most of whom are women, must live on a pension of €200 a month.
Female journalists in Germany have launched a petition demanding the introduction of a 30-percent quota for women in senior editorial positions within the country's media.
The 30 leading German companies belonging to the blue-chip stock DAX stock index unveiled a plan Monday to bring more women into management, but stopped short of making quotas compulsory.
Andrea Nahles, general secretary of the Social Democratic Party, and new mother, has called on German politicians to take "one day off politics" every week.
Germany made no progress last year on its yawning gender wage gap, with women earning 23 percent less in gross pay than men – the same as 2009, official figures showed Thursday.
Chancellor Angela Merkel called the dearth of women executives at German companies a “scandal” on Tuesday, as she oversaw the signing of a charter aimed at improving “family-friendly” working conditions.
Green party parliamentary group leader Renate Künast said that Germany's constitution demands gender equality in managing positions in German industry, adding weight to increasing calls for a gender quota.
