belong to The half of the seats in the Bundestag to the women, if necessary by law. The calls for the Vice-President and Green politician Roth in an Interview. In addition, to denounce the sexist gaffes.
Bundestag Vice President Claudia Roth, has called for a parity law for the Bundestag, in order to assign the half of the mandates on women. “Where the structural disadvantage is not enough voluntary participation in the rule,” said the Green politician of the “daily mirror”. If the parties have not converted voluntarily, a statutory scheme properly.
Roth made for a model in which the parties on their choice of as many men as women making lists: “The easiest way would be, if the other parties would initially be based on the model of the Greens, the party lineups quota regulation in List.” This model is perhaps only a first step, but “quickly implemented, and in conformity with the Constitution,” stressed Roth. “The aim must be, the glaring Absence of women in many debates, finally something to counter that.”
change of perspectives
“If you don’t count the women, but make sure you count for something – then this brings a radical change of perspectives,” said Roth. Women of the defence Committee, for example, would have a very different view on conflicts and wars, men in the family the Committee a different perspective on the parents time.
Currently in the Bundestag 219 women and 490 men. This corresponds to a proportion of women of almost 31 percent. In the case of any party, the disproportion of the sexes is not as pronounced as in the case of the AfD. Of the 92 mandates that only ten will be occupied by a woman.
The half of the seats in the Bundestag is supposed to belong to the women, calls Claudia Roth.
“Persistent malice against women”
in whose ranks there are especially a lot of the sexist gaffes, writes Roth. As an example, she cited “persistent malice against women, a reduction in stereotyped attributions, Contempt”. Obviously, trying “to make open sexism socially acceptable. Some people don’t find this funny, or trivial, with the note, in the beer tent there was another way. The Bundestag is but a tent, no beer”.
at the end of January was adopted by the Brandenburg state Parliament is the first Parliament in Germany, a so-called Paritégesetz. It parties stipulates that candidates were men lists women alternate.
Brandenburg: By law, more women in the Parliament, 31.01.2019 Atlas |Germany |Berlin
