Berlin Declaration (women)
The Berlin Declaration is a non-partisan alliance of members of the German Bundestag , which advocates a proportion of at least 30% women on supervisory boards of German companies.
Organization and supporters
The bipartisan Berlin Declaration was launched on December 15, 2011, some time after the Nuremberg resolution was handed over to politicians on March 17, 2009 in Berlin. Initiators were six of the leading women's associations in Germany - Business and Professional Women (BPW), Deutscher Juristinnenbund (djb), Deutscher LandFrauenverband (dlv), European Women's Management Development (EWMD), FidAR - women on supervisory boards , Association of German Women Entrepreneurs (VdU) and female members of all six parties represented in the Bundestag.
It is supported by women and men across all parties. The first signatories include B. Rita Süssmuth , Renate Schmidt , Renate Künast , Gesine Lötzsch , Viviane Reding , Steffi Jones and Maria Furtwängler .
The IG Metall executive board has also signed the Berlin declaration and is thus one of the more than 22,500 supporters of the Berlin declaration.
In addition to the women's associations belonging to the initiators, the 2017 Berlin Declaration is also supported by 10 other women's associations: Deutscher Ärztinnenbund eV (DÄB), Deutscher Frauenrat (DF), German ingenieurinnenbund eV (dib) , European Academy for Women in Politics and Business (EAF) in Berlin , Frauen im Management eV (FIM), Journalistinnenbund eV (jb), ProQuote Medien eV , ProQuote Medicine, ProQuote Regie eV and Working Moms - Pro Kinder Pro Karriere eV (WM).
There is another organization, ProQuote , in which female journalists demand a 30% female quota for editorial offices.
The non-factional alliance of the “Berlin Declaration” entered the next round at the Federal Press Conference on July 5, 2016. The online petition FairPay with the aim of equal pay starts under the heading Berlin Declaration for Equality on the pay slip. The initiators are jointly responsible for uniting all approaches that lead to this goal in the FairPay alliance. Specifically, this means: creating transparency for all (men and women), obliging the elimination of any identified unequal pay and upgrading social professions.
On May 30, 2017, the alliance published its demands for 2017. According to its own statement, the focus is on the goal of equal participation for women as well as equal pay and the binding implementation of gender equality policy.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Members of the Bundestag demand a quota for women in a Berlin declaration
- ↑ FTD Grand Coalition for Women's Quota ( Memento from January 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ IG Metall board signs Berlin declaration
- ↑ Berlin Declaration: Supporters ( Memento of the original of March 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved November 7, 2012.
- ↑ Pro quota
- ^ Press , accessed on February 21, 2017
- ↑ fair pay today , accessed on February 21, 2017
- ↑ Press release Berlin Declaration 2017. May 30, 2017, accessed on May 30, 2017 .
