Women

The Federal Republic of Germany will not charge luxury taxes on sanitary products anymore, including tampons, sanitary napkins and similar products. In 2020, the tampon tax will decrease by 12 percent.

In Germany, a national discussion on tampons and sanitary napkins has been going on for months. The problem is that the state is taxing them as luxury items.…

The minute the Equal Pay Day was announced, criticism was expressed, as expected. Some men dared to say they did not want to be discriminated. Others stated…

On countless banners reading "Viva la Vulva" or "Do not apply laws to my body", especially young women expressed their pro choice position and rejected abortion laws passed by parliaments with male majorities.

I did bring up my big daughter by showing her that she can become anything she wants. But I did not really have to tell her because she figured it out herself.…

There are countries in which women accounted for less than a fifth of all members of parliament in 2018. They are Hungary, where only 13 percent of all MPs were…

As a matter of fact, adopting this new holiday was not entirely about women or the injustice they are facing, but also about having a new holiday. Other federal states in Germany, especially in the more religious south of the country, have far more holidays. Bavaria has 13 while Berlin had 9 before it adopted the new one.

For women and men who support them, the struggle continues. Equal pay is a subject Germany discusses on a regular basis, since it still has not been achieved.…

The percentage of women in managerial positions in Europe differs from country to country. There are less female managers (ISCO major group 1) in the 19 E.U.…