CDU on equality and diversity

The CDU commits to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and wants to involve those affected in decisions. It wants to strengthen sheltered workshops and inclusive businesses, overhaul the state's integration assistance and create local disability commissioners.

People with disabilities should be able to take part everywhere. The CDU wants to include them in decisions. Sheltered workshops and inclusive businesses should get more support. Counties and large cities should get disability commissioners. These are people who speak up for people with disabilities.

The program sees inclusion as individual support rather than treating everyone the same. Barriers are to be removed not only in buildings but also in language and digital services. The CDU wants to support the expansion of local disability advisory councils and pay more attention to health care for people with disabilities. The structures of Eingliederungshilfe (integration assistance) in Saxony-Anhalt are to be revised.

The CDU wants to promote women, achieve equal pay and fight violence against women. It rejects rules on gender-inclusive language, which it regards as symbolic politics lacking public support.

The CDU wants to support women more at work. Women and men should earn the same. The CDU wants to fight violence against women. It rejects rules for gender-inclusive language. It says such rules do not help.

Women are to be supported especially in science and technology fields and on the path to leadership roles, and role models are to become more visible. The CDU backs equal chances for promotion and a fair split of care work, and wants to support men who take on child-rearing or caregiving. The Istanbul Convention on violence against women is to be carried out in the state in prevention, protection and counseling. Funding for women's shelters and the state women's council is to be developed further.