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Olaf Scholz would occupy at least half of his cabinet with women

2020-11-28T22:06:24.251Z


Should Olaf Scholz become Federal Chancellor, he wants to make the government staff more female. The finance minister has now promised that on Twitter.


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Vice-Chancellor Olaf Scholz: "I am making the promise here today: At least half of a cabinet that I run as Federal Chancellor is made up of women."

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Quotas for women seem to be becoming more and more popular in federal politics.

After the grand coalition recently agreed on a quota in the executive boards of listed companies, the SPD chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz has now announced that women will be represented strongly in the event of an election as head of government.

"I am making the promise here today: At least half of a cabinet that I run as Federal Chancellor is made up of women," wrote the Vice Chancellor on Twitter.

It is part of a modern and open society that full equality between women and men becomes a reality in all areas of life.

In the current Federal Cabinet there are nine men as ministers and seven women - including six ministers and Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU).

Scholz opened a debate by the German Women's Council on gender-equitable budgetary policy with a welcoming address.

The chairwoman of the German Women's Council, Mona Küppers, made it clear in her greeting afterwards why finances and budgets are central issues for the women's lobby: »We are currently seeing: The distribution of financial resources from the Corona economic stimulus programs was not systematically based on the criterion of gender equality analyzed, evaluated and planned. «She called for a fair distribution of financial resources between women and men.

In the course of the corona crisis, it was repeatedly criticized that female ministers had too little say in decisions - and that too few female experts were interviewed.

This is also due to the fact that there are still not as many women as men in parliament.

In the last federal election, the proportion of women among parliamentarians had fallen to 31 percent.

In several state parliaments, too, fewer women moved in after the elections.

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Source: spiegel

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