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February 23, 2012
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Should the childless pay more tax?
Analysis & Opinion: 15 Feb 12
A group of young MPs have proposed that people without children should pay extra tax to help pay for social services in the future. In the light of Germany’s low birth rate, should those without offspring pay more? Have your say.
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Minister calls for school 'Facebook lessons'
Science & Technology: 8 Feb 12
Family Minister Kristina Schröder has called on Germany’s high schools to teach the dangers of social networks on the internet.
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Germany ready to inseminate you, minister says
National: 28 Nov 11
German Family Minister Kristina Schröder has proposed a plan to help finance artificial insemination treatments for childless couples in a bid to encourage more people to use the method.
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Almost half of disabled women sexually abused
Society: 23 Nov 11
A new study shows roughly half of all physically disabled women in Germany have been sexually abused during their youth. Women are also subjected to widespread physical abuse, according to the study.
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Marched down the aisle
Analysis & Opinion: 15 Nov 11
Thousands of forced marriages take place in Germany each year. Many involve German citizens but society continues to look the other way, comments Cigdem Akyol from ZEIT ONLINE.
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Putting Bavarian housewives before disadvantaged children
Analysis & Opinion: 9 Nov 11
Bavarian conservatives’ insistence on paying parents to keep their children out of public day care has made a mockery of Angela Merkel’s family policies, writes Der Tagesspiegel’s Hans Monath.
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Western states likely to miss day-care targets
Society: 7 Nov 11
Latest statistics suggest that western German states will fall well short of a 2007 target of ensuring that one in three children would have a day care spot by 2013.
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Top firms unveil plan to increase female execs
Business & Money: 17 Oct 11
The 30 leading German companies belonging to the blue-chip stock DAX stock index unveiled a plan Monday to bring more women into management, but stopped short of making quotas compulsory.
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Schröder prepares gender quota
National: 15 Oct 11
German Family Minister Kristina Schröder is preparing a law to introduce a flexible gender quota ahead of a meeting with top German companies on Monday.
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Schröder unveils plan to better protect kids
National: 27 Sep 11
The German government is launching a new, aggressive effort to protect children and young people from abuse in families, schools and places of worship.
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Telekom boss wins 'award' for abusing the German language
Society: 27 Aug 11
René Obermann, the CEO of Deutsche Telekom has been crowned as this year’s worst language offender by a German language watchdog.
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Can 'elite' Kitas fill Germany's day-care gap?
Education: 23 May 11
As Germany struggles to expand public day care, the market for private Kitas has boomed in recent years. Chris Cottrell takes a look at the controversial phenomenon of the “elite” crèche.
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Schröder demands help for infertile couples
Politics: 9 May 11
Family Minister Kristina Schröder said on Monday she would try to make life easier for German couples who cannot have children naturally, with stronger financial backing for IVF treatment and easier adoptions.
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Tax breaks for home help and nannies planned for middle class
Politics: 1 May 11
Family Minister Kristina Schröder says she is working on plans for tax breaks for those who employ home help or nannies in an effort to make it easier for middle class families.
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Extension to parenting payments scrapped
Politics: 11 Apr 11
Parents hoping for an extension of Elterngeld parenting payments are set to be disappointed, with Family Minister Kristina Schröder reportedly ditching a plan for the number of “fathers’ months” to be doubled.
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Top corporations resist quota for hiring women execs
Business & Money: 30 Mar 11
Germany's top companies pledged Wednesday to publish new targets for placing more women in their boardrooms but resisted fresh calls for legal quotas to rectify a wide gender gap.
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Government to meet with DAX firms over women execs
Society: 8 Mar 11
The federal government is planning a meeting with human resources directors from Germany's 30 DAX companies to tackle the issue of an absence of women in top management jobs, according to a newspaper report.
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Merkel slams dearth of female executives
Business & Money: 8 Feb 11
Chancellor Angela Merkel called the dearth of women executives at German companies a “scandal” on Tuesday, as she oversaw the signing of a charter aimed at improving “family-friendly” working conditions.
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Majority thinks quota needed for women execs
Politics: 4 Feb 11
Most Germans doubt that companies will boost the representation of women on their boards unless they are forced to do so by a mandatory quota, a poll published Friday found.
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Schröder for gradual quota for women execs
Politics: 4 Feb 11
Chancellor Angela Merkel ruled out a mandatory quota for women in executive positions at big firms this week, but on Friday Family Minister Kristina Schröder said she was still pushing a graduated scheme to achieve the same ends.
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Merkel rules out quota for women execs
Politics: 3 Feb 11
Chancellor Angela Merkel ruled out a mandatory quota for women in executive positions at German firms late on Wednesday, effectively ending an internal debate within her party on the subject.
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Ministers at odds over jobs quota for women
Politics: 31 Jan 11
Labour Minister Ursula von der Leyen and Family Minister Kristina Schröder were at loggerheads Monday on whether to enforce a quota for women in top jobs in German firms.
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Family Minister Schröder expecting her first baby
Politics: 19 Jan 11
German Family Minister Kristina Schröder is in the family way, she confirmed Wednesday, admitting she and her husband will now face the same challenge as many other couples – balancing career and parenthood.
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Schröder calls for kindergartens to have male workers
Society: 15 Jan 11
German Family Minister Kristina Schröder has unveiled plans to train jobless men to work as nursery helpers, with the aim of having at least one man at each kindergarten in the future.
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‘Wutbürger’ named word of the year
Society: 17 Dec 10
The German Language Society (GfdS) on Friday crowned Wutbürger, or “enraged citizen,” as the most important German word of 2010. The choice reflected a year in which the angry masses took to the streets in protest of several issues.
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Minister slams 'macho' Muslim culture
Politics: 26 Nov 10
Family Minister Kristina Schröder slammed on Friday what she sees as a growing tendency to violence stemming from a “macho culture” among young Muslim men.
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Family Minister Schröder locked in blazing feminism row
Society: 9 Nov 10
A blazing row over feminism erupted Tuesday between Family Minister Kristina Schröder and leading women’s rights campaigner, Alice Schwarzer, following an interview by the minister that had other women politicians bristling too.
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Family Ministry launches early language initiative for day care
Society: 2 Nov 10
The Family Ministry on Tuesday announced plans to improve early German language instruction in areas with high immigrant populations by increasing the number of teachers at up to 4,000 day care centres.
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Schröder suggests elderly take part in public service
Society: 15 Sep 10
With military reforms set to end both conscription and its alternative Zivildienst public service, Family Minister Kristina Schröder said Wednesday that Germany should harness the power of its ageing population to fill the volunteer gap.
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Germans retiring later in life
Society: 8 Sep 10
Germans are retiring later in life, according to a government-commissioned study that could bolster calls to raise the pension age.
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Germans ready to make babies
Society: 1 Sep 10
A growing number of Germans want children, intensifying demands for government assistance to improve the balance between work and family, according to a new study from the Family Ministry.
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Conservatives suggest mandatory public service for young adults
Society: 26 Aug 10
As Germany debates major military reforms that will likely put an end to conscription – and thus the alternative public service – conservative politicians are suggesting a new compulsory service programme for young adults.
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Guttenberg to slash military, end draft
National: 23 Aug 10
Defence Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg said on Monday he planned to cut Germany's armed forces by one-third while scrapping compulsory military service.
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Family Ministry projects suspended due to budget cuts
Politics: 9 Aug 10
Central family policy projects laid out in Angela Merkel’s centre-right coalition contract have apparently been put on ice, a media report said on Monday.
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Major review of family benefits planned
Society: 21 Jul 10
The German government plans to conduct a sweeping review of its family policies and benefits to see whether they have been effective, Family Minister Kristina Schröder said on Wednesday.
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Poor families hit by parenting payment cuts
National: 16 Jul 10
Cuts to Germany's Elterngeld parenting benefits will be deeper than previously thought, with its centre-right government planning to benefits for low-income parents who work part-time, media reported Friday.
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Military plans exclude conscripts
National: 12 Jun 10
A looming fight within the governing coalition over whether to scrap military service seems to have already been decided, with the Defence Ministry already planning to make do without any new troops from next year.
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Minister moots shorter work week for parents
Business & Money: 21 May 10
Family Minister Kristina Schröder on Friday called for German companies to create more flexible work time models to allow parents better options for juggling career and family.
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Day care guarantee not in danger, minister says
National: 12 May 10
Families will still be guaranteed a day care spot for their young children by 2013 despite Germany's worsening budgetary situation, Family Minister Kristina Schröder assured on Wednesday.
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Cracking the corporate glass ceiling
Society: 28 Apr 10
Chancellor Angela Merkel might frequently be ranked the world's most powerful woman, but as Kyle James reports, gender inequality in the workplace remains a stubborn problem in Germany.
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Catholics relieved by Mixa's resignation
National: 23 Apr 10
As Germany’s 25 million Catholics await word on whether the Vatican has accepted embattled Bishop Walter Mixa’s resignation, senior Church members on Friday expressed relief over – and respect for – Mixa’s decision to step down.
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Trust in Catholic Church plummets amid abuse scandal
Society: 24 Mar 10
Trust in the Catholic Church has taken a heavy blow, a poll released Wednesday revealed, with barely one in six Germans saying they had confidence in the Church in the wake of the child sex abuse scandal.
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Deutsche Telekom introduces quota for women executives
Business & Money: 15 Mar 10
Europe's biggest telecommunications group, Deutsche Telekom, said Monday it would introduce a 30-percent quota for women in senior positions by the end of 2015.
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Family minister's nursing care proposal assailed
Politics: 4 Mar 10
A proposal by German Family Minister Kristina Schröder to allow employees to reduce working hours for two years to care for ailing loved ones was met with widespread criticism on Thursday.
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Police bust child pornography ring
National: 25 Feb 10
Police in the city of in Münster announced on Thursday they had broken up a major child pornography ring, raiding houses across Germany and arresting eight suspects.
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