Grüne on equality and diversity

The Greens want more women to be able to work and the pay gap with men to shrink. The platform names better work-family balance as a key element and also sees it as a competitive advantage against the skilled-labor shortage.

The Greens want more women to be able to work. Women should earn as much as men. Family and work should fit together better. For this, there should be more childcare.

The party points to existing state programs such as the Frau und Beruf contact offices, "Spitzenfrauen BW" and the part-time training network. It wants to fund pilot projects for working-time models geared to life stages and for caregiving leave arrangements. Childcare and all-day care are to be expanded. Mentoring programs for women's careers and support for part-time models are also planned. Universities would continue to receive reliable funding to meet demand for academically trained workers.

The Greens want to give early-career researchers more security and a stronger say, and to further raise the share of women among professors and university leaders. They want to counter discrimination at universities.

Young researchers often only have short contracts. The Greens want to give them more security. More women should become professors. Nobody should be treated unfairly at universities.

Early-career researchers are to get a stronger voice in academic self-governance. The “Prize for Courageous Science” is to be developed further to make risk-taking research more visible. The “Margarete von Wrangell” program keeps women in academia between doctorate and professorship; the share of women is to rise further. At universities, the party opposes antisemitism, racism, ableism and hostility toward queer people. University spaces are also to be opened up for shared use and tied into urban development.

The Greens want teacher training to build more awareness of the realities queer children and teenagers face. Together with education providers from the queer community, they want to foster a school culture in which these students feel safe and accepted.

Queer people are, for example, gay, lesbian or trans. The Greens want teachers to learn more about queer students. No one should be left out at school. Queer students should feel safe at school.

The platform points to the guiding theme on tolerance and acceptance of diversity in the 2016 curriculum. In the future, teachers are to gain skills for dealing with the concerns of queer children and teenagers in class and school life without discrimination. Education providers from the community are to take part.

The Greens want to create tailored counseling for people who are the first in their family to attend university. They also want to attract more women to STEM degrees and skilled trades, and more men to midwifery.

Some people are the first in their family to go to university. The Greens want special advice for them. More women should study science and technology. More women should also work in skilled trades.

The counseling is to be designed for first-generation students because, in the party's view, they need particular backing. Girls are to be encouraged toward STEM subjects while still at school. Gender stereotypes in career choice are to be reduced in male- and female-dominated occupations alike, for example through the project "Frauen im Handwerk" (women in the trades). A statewide campaign is to interest men in becoming midwives.

The Greens want to push at the federal level for removing abortion from the Criminal Code. Within the state, there should be secure and timely access to abortion everywhere, and pregnancy counseling is to be expanded.

Abortion is in the criminal law today. The Greens want to change that. Women should decide about their own bodies. There should be doctors for an abortion everywhere in the state. Counseling for pregnant women should get better.

Pregnancy counseling is to cover all questions of family planning. People with an unwanted pregnancy should quickly get expert information on surgical and medication abortions. The party bases its demands on the right to self-determination over one's own body. Repealing the criminal provision is a matter of federal law, which is why the Greens want to pursue it at the federal level.

The Greens want to achieve statewide coverage with women's shelters and implement the Istanbul Convention against violence against women. Equality of all genders is to be advanced and the protection of queer people improved.

Women's shelters protect women from violence. The Greens want enough of them everywhere in the state. All genders should have equal chances. Queer people should also be better protected.

The platform points to the state's equality strategy, which covers all social, economic, academic and cultural areas. It mentions existing counseling centers for domestic and sexual violence, the "nachtsam" campaign for safety in nightlife, and the specialist office against antifeminism and hostility toward queer people. Equal opportunity officers in municipalities and state institutions are said to have been strengthened. The Istanbul Convention is a Council of Europe treaty on protecting women from violence.

The Greens want to revise the state's Chancengleichheitsgesetz (equal opportunity act) so that gender equality becomes more effective and binding. They advocate equal pay and more women in leadership positions.

Women and men should have equal chances. A state law should become stricter for this. Women should get the same pay for the same work. More women should become bosses.

Equal opportunity officers in municipalities and state institutions are to be strengthened. Statewide monitoring is to show how far the Istanbul Convention has been implemented. Counseling centers on prostitution and human trafficking are to be strengthened, exit housing funded, and programs for affected women supported.

The Greens want to add sexual identity to the anti-discrimination clause of the Basic Law and modernize family and parentage law so that rainbow families have legal security. Existing support structures for queer people in the state are to be developed and funded for the long term.

Queer people should be better protected. The constitution should ban unfair treatment because of sexual identity. Families with two mothers or two fathers should get equal rights. Counseling should also exist in rural areas.

The action plan "Für Akzeptanz und gleiche Rechte" and the Queer Network BW are to be secured for the long term. Because, according to the platform, Christopher Street Day events are increasingly disrupted by right-wing extremists, a contact person is to be created at the state domestic intelligence office. Counseling for queer young people is to be reliably funded, especially in rural areas. Queer refugees are to be treated with sensitivity in initial reception centers.

The Greens want to fight violence against women through prevention and prosecution. They call on the federal government to create a separate criminal offense for femicide, rely on electronic ankle monitors, and want to ensure enough women's shelters and counseling centers across the state.

Women and girls should be better protected from violence. Killing a woman because she is a woman should be its own crime. Dangerous offenders should wear an ankle monitor. There should be enough women's shelters.

Plans include statewide monitoring of gender-based violence, mandatory offender programs and education on non-violent role models. Police, prosecutors and courts are to receive regular training, and free, confidential evidence collection after sexual violence is sought statewide. The federal Gewalthilfegesetz (violence assistance act) is to be implemented and mobile support expanded. Protection services are to be accessible for people with disabilities. Digital violence, including AI-generated criminal content, is also to be uncovered consistently.

The Greens want an equal treatment act to protect people from discrimination by public authorities. Anti-discrimination projects and counseling centers are to receive reliable funding, and a prevention network against hate crime is to be built.

No one should be treated worse by public offices. A strong law should make sure of that. Counseling centers against unfair treatment should get steady funding. A network should help prevent hate crimes.

The specialist office against antifeminism and hostility toward queer people is to be expanded further; it advises, educates, assesses threats and documents incidents. Anti-discrimination measures are to be intersectional, meaning they take multiple forms of disadvantage into account. The platform opposes hate, incitement and violence both online and offline.

The Greens want to protect Jewish life, step up education about antisemitism in schools and secure permanent counseling centers against antisemitism. The Islamberatung Baden-Württemberg (Islam advisory service) is to become the central point of contact for Muslim communities.

Jewish people should live without fear. Schools should teach more about hatred of Jews. There should be lasting counseling centers. Muslim communities should get one central contact office.

The platform understands religious freedom as including the freedom not to belong to any religion or worldview. Antisemitism and hostility toward Muslims are to be fought, and exchange between religions promoted. The Greens want to stay in dialogue with the Jewish communities. They see a high need for counseling after antisemitic attacks since October 7, 2023.