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Download full textStern, Susan – Basis-Info, 1997
In 1977, when women in West Germany (the Fedeal Republic of Germany) got the legal right to be employed outside the family against their husband's will, paragraph 1356 of the Civil Code, defining housework as the woman's duty, was abolished. Until then, heavy social pressure kept women close to home; in most cases, the choice of an outside…
Descriptors: Employed Women, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Family Work Relationship, Foreign Countries
Zahn, Ingrid – 1995
Young women perceive themselves today as equally entitled, active citizens of society. Women's interest in helping to shape politics and society has grown. The German Women's Council, an umbrella organization of about 100 German women's associations, commemorates this year the 100th anniversary of the death of Louise Otto-Peters, the founder of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Comparable Worth, Employed Women, Employment Practices
Engelbrech, Gerhard – 1998
In Germany as elsewhere, enterprises are becoming increasingly convinced that the initial costs of increasing attention to promoting the employment of women are offset by the medium- and long-term benefits to the enterprise because of a larger pool of qualified female employees. This attitude change is partly due to the fact that, in western…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Employed Women, Employer Employee Relationship, Employment Practices
Peer reviewedLubeck, Sally – Teachers College Record, 1995
Reviews recent trends in female employment and preschool provision in the United States and Europe, discussing how governments have responded to the issues. "Nation as context," a type of cross-national research, is developed by comparing and contrasting child care and early education systems in Germany, France, and the United States.…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Comparative Education, Day Care, Early Childhood Education
Muller, Petra; Kurtz, Beate – 2003
The equality of the opportunities available to males and females in Germany's labor market was examined. The study compared employment patterns among women and men and the extent to which selected discretionary benefits of Germany's Federal Employment Service benefit women and men. Selected results were as follows: (1) women are under-represented…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Differences, Education Work Relationship, Employed Women
Born, Sigrid, Ed. – 2000
This document contains eight articles from German newspapers that feature women who have achieved career success in very diverse economic sectors, while simultaneously highlighting the discrimination and other problems (including lower income, fewer promotions to executive positions, and smaller pensions) that many other German women continue to…
Descriptors: Building Trades, Comparative Analysis, Education Work Relationship, Employed Women
