Celibacy Clause
A celibacy clause is understood to be an agreement in the employment contract of women that terminates the employment relationship at a certain point in time if the employee marries.
Such regulations were found in the private sector as well as in the civil service , for example in the case of so-called " female teacher celibacy ". This also involved the complete loss of the pension. Such clauses were common in Germany until the 1950s. The Federal Labor Court ruled on May 10, 1957 that a celibacy clause in employment contracts was generally unconstitutional and thus void.
For female pastors , this regulation existed in most regional churches after the introduction of women's ordination (in the Hanoverian regional church, for example, between the introduction of women's ordination in 1963 and 1969), in Austria until 1980.
Individual evidence
- ↑ “The celibacy clause stipulated that the civil servant had to leave the service when she married, and consequently only single or childless widowed women were employed at all. In the event of marriage, the right to the pension expired completely. ”Quoted from: E. Kohler-Gehrig: The history of women in law (PDF; 241 kB), University of Public Administration and Finance Ludwigsburg, August 2007, p. 23, accessed on January 18, 2015
- ^ Judgment of the First Senate of the Federal Labor Court v. May 10, 1957, 1_AZR 249/563
- ↑ For 50 years: Pastors , Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover, accessed on January 18, 2015
- ↑ On the history of women's studies ( Memento from January 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), Institute for Practical Theology and Psychology of Religion at the University of Vienna, accessed on January 18, 2015