Documents - Policies Regarding Gender Equality

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1.	Control Council Law No. 32 on the Employment of Women in Building and Reconstruction Work (July 10, 1946) As a result of the shortage of male workers and the poor state of the economy, women worked in areas previously reserved for men, even after 1945. Control Council Law No. 32 acknowledged this situation....
2.	Elisabeth Meyer-Spreckels, "Marriage and Family in the Constitution: Report to the Bavarian Constitutional Assembly" (August 14, 1946) The constitutional debates of the postwar period revolved around the question of whether traditional Christian notions of marriage and family, which had shaped legal conditions in Germany up to that....
3.	Resolution of the Second Party Congress of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany on the Women’s Question (September 24, 1947) In East Germany, too, reconstruction and economic recovery depended on the deployment of women. In 1947, the SED propagated the unqualified equality of men and women in public life and the workplace.....
4.	The 6th Interzonal Trade Union Conference: Position of Women in the Economy, the Restructuring of Social Security (October 21-23, 1947) In the postwar period, just under half of all those employed in Germany were women. This was a new reality with which German unions had to come to terms. Previously, fears of labor market competition....
5.	Die Neue Zeitung on the Public Discourse over the Problematic Issue of Equal Rights (January 13, 1949) When the Basic Law was worked out in West Germany in 1949, gender equality was one of the....
6.	Speech by GDR Minister President Otto Grotewohl: "For the Happiness of Our Mothers and Children" (September 27, 1950) In 1950, GDR Minister President Otto Grotewohl laid out the basic principles of gender and family policy in East Germany. The GDR constitution, as he explained, enshrined the full legal equality....
7.	The Federal Executive Board of the Democratic Women’s League of Germany: Working Directive on the Law for the Protection of Mothers and the Rights of Women (November 6, 1950) The equality of men and women was enshrined in the GDR constitution, and the SED made every effort to further increase the number of women in the workforce. In 1950, the Democratic Women’s League....
8.	The Position of the German Association of Women Academics on a Draft Version of the Equal Rights Law (August 1952) The equality of men and women was enshrined in the Basic Law that was enacted in 1949. At the same time, however, a period of several years was granted for the adjustment of subsidiary laws, especially....
9.	The Position of the Marriage Law Commission of the Protestant Church in Germany on the Draft Version of a Family Law (December 1952) The Protestant and Catholic churches were active participants in the West German debate in the early 1950s on reforming the provisions of the Civil Code that dealt with marriage and family law. The....
10.	The Chairman of the Conference of Catholic Bishops in Fulda, Cardinal Joseph Frings, on the Reorganization of the Marriage and Family Law (January 30, 1953) The Protestant and Catholic churches were active participants in the West German debate in the early 1950s over reforming the provisions of the Civil Code that pertained to marriage and family law.....
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