Historic demonstrations in Egypt may not have toppled President Hosni Mubarak yet, but on Wednesday they did claim one glamorous victim: preparations for the "Miss Germany" beauty pageant.
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.
Women and immigrants will have to fill the skilled worker shortage expected to hit Germany in the coming years, according to a new 10-point plan by the Federal Employment Agency (BA).
Women have been able to join the German military for ten years, and Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Sohst, regional chairman of the German Army Association (DBwV), believes the Bundeswehr is better for it.
With the fringe contact sport roller derby gaining popularity in Germany, <b>Melanie Sevcenko</b> heads to the rink to soak up the atmosphere of the country’s first national championship.
Berlin’s Charité Hospital has achieved a world-first by creating MRI images of a baby being born in order to provide extraordinary insights into the birthing process.
German police are fighting a boom in sex trafficking from the Balkans region, driven by pimps and traffickers recruiting increasingly young women, experts said in Berlin this week.
A blazing row over feminism erupted Tuesday between Family Minister Kristina Schröder and Germany’s leading women’s rights campaigner, Alice Schwarzer, following an interview by the minister that had other women politicians bristling too.
People in the former East German states have more progressive views of working mothers than their counterparts in the west, and eastern women are more likely to juggle work and family successfully, a study has found.
Chancellor Angela Merkel has been stripped of her status as the world’s most powerful woman, with the new Forbes list putting US first lady Michelle Obama at the summit of female influence.
German pharmaceutical giant Bayer is developing a kind of female Viagra in the form of a new treatment for post-menopausal women experiencing vaginal atrophy that can lead to sexual dysfunction.
Prize-winning German documentary filmmaker Loretta Walz is making 50 of her interviews with female survivors of the Ravensbrück concentration camp available on the internet this Friday.
German women earn up to <a href="http://www.thelocal.de/society/20090223-17613.html" target="_blank">one-quarter less</a> than their male co-workers, but a new study released Tuesday surprisingly revealed that many women also think they deserve a smaller paycheque.
A new erotic magazine for women called “Alley Cat” hit German newsstands this week, with publishers targeting young women who have “grown up with sex,” according to the editor.
A new initiative aims to lower the disproportionately high number of suicide attempts among young German-Turkish women thought to be caused by familial conflicts.
Chancellor Angela Merkel might frequently be ranked the world's most powerful woman, but as <b>Kyle James</b> reports, gender inequality in the workplace remains a stubborn problem in Germany.
Telecommunications group Deutsche Telekom this month unveiled a quota for female senior executives, but even with more women managers, Germany as a whole still trails far behind in pay equality between the sexes.
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.
Education Minister Annette Schavan used International Women's Day on Monday as an opportunity to demand equal opportunities for women, following an EU report that Germany has one of the biggest gender pay gaps in Europe.
Women are dramatically under-represented in the boardrooms of major corporations in Germany and need state-imposed quotas to achieve parity, a study published Wednesday said.
Faced with post-holiday bloat, <b>Roger Boyes</b>, the Berlin correspondent for British daily The Times, parses the decision by German women’s magazine <i>Brigitte</i> to stop using skinny models.
A Berlin rapper who goes by the stage name of <i>Frauenarzt</i> – or "gynaecologist" – was fined €8,400 by a court on Monday for distributing violent pornographic writings and depictions of violence.
Germany’s baby hatches, which allow mothers to give up their children anonymously, have been called into question by the German Ethics Council, which has deemed them morally “problematic.”
A woman engaged in a protracted legal battle with a Böblingen hospital has withdrawn her lawsuit after reaching a settlement for having her breast unnecessarily removed, her lawyer said on Monday.
Bakers in the state of Hesse announced on Saturday they were fighting domestic violence by handing out 700,000 bread bags adorned with a slogan encouraging women to speak up on the taboo topic.
