From footballers to Frau Merkel, Germany's zealous women have made it far in a man's world. We look at seven of the most renowned on International Women's Day.
For hundreds of years, men have kept the job of colonising planet Earth and beyond for themselves, but Claudia Kessler has had enough: the CEO of HE Space is looking for the first German female astronaut.
Protests are being organized in cities across Germany – including Berlin, Frankfurt, and Munich – against meetings by followers of pickup artist Roosh V, who has argued for legalizing rape.
German women are having more children than at any time in the last quarter of a century, as for the third year in a row the birth rate in the ageing Bundesrepublik grew, new statistics show.
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.
As Germany celebrates Equal Pay Day on March 20th with demonstrations planned in Berlin, Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth Manuela Schwesig said on Friday that her proposed wage transparency law has the support of Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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.
As MPs meet to discuss a planned law which would force large companies and the government to hire more women managers and executives, experts say that the bill hasn't been properly drafted.
UPDATE: The grand coalition's freshly minted law mandating that 30 percent of executive positions must be filled by women is being hit with harsh criticisms from the firms who have to comply to it.
Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Social Democratic (SPD) politicians are bickering in public over quotas for female board members in large companies.
Women in Germany are still underrepresented in leadership jobs and among professors, a new government report said on Wednesday. They are also paid less and remain unlikely to study science, technology, engineering or mathematics.
UPDATE: The equality commissioner at the German Family Ministry won a court case on Thursday against her own employers over the appointment of three men to key positions in 2012.
Women are a very rare sight on submarines, but the German navy has welcomed its first female officer, Janine Asseln, who is The Local’s German of the Week.
Germany has failed to do anything to close the yawning pay gap between men and women, for the third year running. Women still earn an average of a fifth less per hour than men.
One in three German women have experienced physical or sexual violence, a Europe-wide study revealed on Wednesday. Across the EU, there are around 62 million women who at some point have been assaulted.
Germany is one of the few countries in Europe where the morning after pill is not available over the counter. Family planning experts told The Local why they are fighting for this to change.
The leader of the Social Democrats pledged a 50-50 male-female split of the party's cabinet posts in a planned new 'grand coalition' with Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives, according to a newspaper interview.
A court sentenced a German gynaecologist on Monday to three-and-a-half years in prison for over 1,400 counts of gross invasion of privacy. He took more than 35,000 photos of his patients using a secret camera hidden in a drawer.
The first rounds of coalition talks between Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives and the centre-left Social Democratic Party have put a minimum quota on the number of women in German boardrooms back on the table.
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.
