Women politics

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Women's policy describes a policy at the state and institutional level that aims to have an effective influence on the social situation of women . The respective currents of women's politics that various social groups pursue are strongly influenced by philosophical , religious and ideological assumptions. In a narrower sense, the term women's policy is often used today for a policy with the aim of equality between women and men .

At the state level, women's policy is often viewed as linked to family policy and is summarized with this in the Ministry of Women and in legislative processes. In Germany, there is the Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth (BMFSFJ) in this context . As a women's policy, it is closely linked to the women's movement, a social movement that advocates women's rights in society.

Women's policy in the GDR

In the women's policy of the GDR, the legal basis of which was the law on mother and child protection and women's rights passed in 1950 , the compatibility of work and family was a focus and for women in the GDR their own professional activity was the norm. For various reasons, the SED state succeeded by 1989 in integrating almost 92 percent of women into the labor sector. This comparatively high female employment rate in the GDR - accompanied by a high proportion of children in state care facilities - is a clear difference to the old Federal Republic. The women in the GDR were faced with the need to reconcile work and family life. The so-called "equality policy" of the GDR had an impact on these individual areas of life for East German women: Effects on the situation of women in the employment sector and on the living situation within families.

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