Bremen central office for the realization of equal rights for women

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Bremen central office for the realization of equal rights for women

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State level country
Supervisory authority Senate Commissioner for the Realization of Equal Rights for Women / Senator for Social Affairs, Children, Youth and Women
founding 1980
Headquarters Bremen
Authority management Bettina Wilhelm
Servants 14th
Web presence zgf.bremen.de

The Bremen Central Office for the Realization of Equal Rights for Women (FZS) is an authority of the federal state of Bremen . Its legal mandate is to work towards and to ensure that the constitutional requirement of equal rights for women is fulfilled.

Legal basis and authority structure

The legal basis of the FZS is the law on the establishment of the Bremen Central Office for the Realization of Equal Rights for Women , which assigns them extensive rights of participation, information, control and suggestion. Furthermore, the FZS has tasks in connection with the work of the women's representative in the Bremen public service according to the State Equal Opportunities Act.

The FZS is subject to the official and legal supervision of the Senate Commissioner for the Realization of Equal Rights for Women (currently Senator for Social Affairs, Children, Youth and Women Anja Stahmann ). There is no technical supervision.

State representative for women

The authority is managed by the State Commissioner for Women , an office anchored in Bremen by law by the State Parliament. It is elected by the Bremen citizenship and appointed by the Senate for 12 years . As a result, your office in Bremen has a particularly strong political legitimation. Ursel Kerstein was elected as the first Bremen women's representative in 1982 .

The office is currently held by Ulrike Hauffe . She has been Bremen's second state representative since the FZS was founded in 1980 and took up office in September 1994. In 2006 she was confirmed for a second term. Hauffe spoke up again and again to the public in Bremen to enforce equal rights for women and has been publicly committed since 2009 to an end to the exclusion of women from the executive meal of Bremen's business and captain elite. In 2012, her detailed criticism of the procedural deficiencies in the selection of Frank Pietrzok as the new mayor's director caused a stir . Contrary to procedural regulations and the women's advancement plan of the parliamentary administration, the deputy mayor Marlis Grotheer-Hüneke and another applicant were not comprehensibly considered for the position.

Work of the authority

Logo of the Bremen women's city book

The authority currently has 15 contact persons, four of them in Bremerhaven . They advise women personally and investigate their complaints about disadvantage. Suggestions for enforcing women's interests or improving the advancement of women in offices are also taken up. In addition, information can be obtained on topics such as women's politics or what offers are available for women and girls in Bremen and Bremerhaven. In addition to personal advice, information is also provided on current topics in the form of brochures, leaflets and information leaflets.

In the case of legislative proposals, representatives of the FZS take a stand in favor of women and girls and suggest measures at the municipal , state and federal level to improve the situation of women. They support women's and girls' organizations in their work and promote their networking. In addition, they do public relations work to provide information on issues relating to women’s politics and to emphasize the demands of women.

The State Commissioner takes part in the State Council meeting in an advisory capacity and can thus influence the equality of women at this central point.

The authority is also the publisher of the Bremer Frauenstadtbuch , a free reference work that lists more than 300 institutions, associations and initiatives with non-commercial offers that could be of interest to women and that women can work on or that offer them advice, help or information . A corresponding Bremerhaven women's city book is also published by the FZS . Both reference works are now also available on the Internet.

Budget cuts and criticism of the authority

In January 2010, the then Bremen FDP parliamentary group leader Uwe Woltemath indirectly criticized the work of the FZS in a newspaper interview. In order to make sensible savings in the Bremen state budget, the FDP wants to use “a real administrative reform to strengthen the sector that works directly for the citizen and save where someone does nothing but label the folder. The current situation is such that, for example, the central office for the realization of women's rights is excluded from the personnel savings rate, while the opening times of the police stations are being reduced due to staff shortages. "

Due to the tight budget of the authority, the Bremen women's city book with over 300 contact points and offers from non-commercial institutions for women could not be reprinted in 2009 and appeared for the first time only in the online version. In the view of the FZS, this means that many women who do not have access to the Internet - such as migrants , low-income women or senior citizens - are excluded from this information . An updated new edition of the free information work, which was last published in 2005 with 8000 printed copies and has since been out of print, did not take place until the end of 2010.

The Frankfurt Zoological Society had occupied 2,009 11.6 points by its own account and had to for the following financial year are limited to 11.2 points. In this context, the State Commissioner pointed out that tasks such as advising Senate departments or checking submissions for gender equality could only be fulfilled to a limited extent by the authority in the then current year 2009. In response, Elisabeth Motschmann ( CDU ), member of the Citizenship Equal Opportunities Committee , said it shouldn't happen that the state women's representative only existed on paper and could no longer act.

A modernization of the central office and the State Equal Opportunities Act (LGG) demanded in 2010 the Bremen FDP chairman Oliver Möllenstädt , at that time spokesman for the FDP parliamentary group for gender equality policy. There are still more men than women in the executive suite, but women are among themselves in kindergartens and primary schools. The law's exclusive focus on women (i.e. the lack of support for men in areas dominated by women ) is outdated in many areas.

Possible abolition of the authority

The draft of the FDP election program for the election of the Bremen citizenship in May 2011 provided for the abolition of the authority. Their "life of their own [...] as an expensive, bloated and largely superfluous administrative apparatus" must be ended. Once the FDP has been elected, the tasks should be carried out by the Senate member responsible for gender equality issues. According to the FDP opinion of the time, Bremen's path in gender policy followed an outdated image of women and the inaccurate idea that only women are victims of gender conflicts and discrimination . The abolition of the FZS should be implemented in a far-reaching overall concept for equality between men and women formulated in the election manifesto, which should also focus on men. This also envisaged the abolition of the structures of women's representatives in the public service, which had previously been based solely on women; in addition, as a result of the FDP reduction concept for the parliamentary committees, the committee for equality of women in the citizenry would have ceased to be an independent body.

Award of the FZS project "frauenseiten.bremen.de"

The project "frauenseiten.bremen.de" the FZS has been prepared by the Federal Ministry of Economics awarded in the competition "Wege ins Netz" as a learning and communication in the category "Women" in 2009, with the first place. On the website, women present facilities, point out events and learn how to use the Internet. In the opinion of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, the award-winning projects convey exemplary skills in dealing with the Internet. In doing so, you made an active contribution to digital integration. The fact that such a project is also based on voluntary work, according to the regional women's representative, is a sign of the times: "There are no more sponsors for our topics, [...] that was different in the past."

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  1. ↑ Equal Rights Central Agency Act. Transparency portal Bremen, accessed on April 16, 2016 .
  2. ↑ State Equal Opportunities Act. Transparency portal Bremen, accessed on April 16, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Senate Commissioner for the Realization of Equal Rights for Women. Soziales.bremen.de, accessed on October 24, 2011 .
  4. ↑ a b City of Women. 25 years of the Bremen Central Office for the Realization of Equal Rights for Women. P. 2. (PDF; 1.3 MB)
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  5. ↑ FZS website: About us. State representative for women. Accessed May 27, 2010.
  6. ↑ Bremer Anzeiger : "We have to be much more radical". BREMER ANZEIGER in conversation with the Bremen State Commissioner for Women, Ulrike Hauffe. March 8, 2009 .
    Kreiszeitung.de: The equal opportunities officer is running out of money. September 22, 2009 Senate
    press office :     State women's commissioner criticizes the choice of judges of the state court. October 17, 2007. bremen.de: Ulrike Hauffe: women participate equally in forming a government! (Open letter from the regional women's representative to the party chairmen of the SPD, CDU and Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen on the participation of women in upcoming coalition talks and the formation of a government), May 21, 2007. ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: Der Archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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  7. ↑ A meeting with a surprise effect. Encounters in Bremen: The state women's representative Ulrike Hauffe meets the head of Haus Seefahrt, Michael Schroiff. Weser-Kurier , Bremen, July 10, 2009, p. 11. Weser Kurier: Women are evidently a risk even for enlightened men. A guest commentary by Ulrike Hauffe on ice cream bet and Schaffermahlzeit. January 12, 2010, p. 11.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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  8. ↑ taz .de: Women were significantly more qualified. August 13, 2012. Retrieved September 21, 2012.
  9. ^ Weser Kurier : Hauffe criticizes the choice of director. September 9, 2012. Retrieved September 21, 2012.
  10. ^ FZS website: Contact persons in Bremen. , Contact persons in Bremerhaven. Accessed January 24, 2012.
  11. ↑ Bremer Anzeiger : "It is useless to point to the federal government". The Bremen FDP parliamentary group leader Uwe Woltemath in conversation. January 3, 2010.
  12. ↑ Kreiszeitung.de: The equal opportunities officer is running out of money. September 22, 2009
  13. ↑ Weser Report: Pro & Contra. 17th November 2010.
  14. ^ The Citizens' Program 2011. Strong for Bremen and Bremerhaven. Election program of the FDP-Landesverband Bremen for the citizenship election 2011. Draft, status: January 24th, 2011. P. 60f. Retrieved February 2, 2011.
  15. ↑ Bremische Bürgerschaft: Committee for Equal Opportunities for Women. Retrieved February 2, 2011.
  16. ↑ According to the FDP, the parliamentary committees should later correspond to the aforementioned Senate departments. The Citizens' Program 2011. Strong for Bremen and Bremerhaven. Election program of the FDP state association Bremen for the 2011 state election. Draft, status: January 24, 2011. P. 33. Accessed on February 2, 2011.
  17. ↑ Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology: "Paths to the Net" competition - 2009 award winners: "Women" category. ( Memento of the original from May 8, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology: Excellent projects. ( Memento of the original from May 8, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Kreiszeitung.de: The equal opportunities officer is running out of money. September 22, 2009  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bmwi.de
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