What do the parties in Bremen say on equality and diversity?

The BIW rejects gender-inclusive language forms in public administration, in laws, and in schools and daycare centers. Its reasoning is that they make official language harder to understand.

The BIW does not want gender-inclusive language in public offices. It says this language makes official letters harder to read. Laws should not use it either. Teachers and daycare staff should not use it.

The CDU rejects binding rules on gender-inclusive language in education, teaching, and public administration. People who do not use it should face no disadvantage, including in grading.

The CDU does not want rules that force gender-inclusive language. That is language that addresses all genders. Nobody should be worse off for not using it. This also applies to school grades.

The CDU wants to fully implement the Istanbul Convention in Bremen and Bremerhaven and provide enough counseling and women's shelter places. It notes that women and girls are especially often affected by violence, including domestic violence.

Women and girls often face violence. The CDU wants to protect them better. There should be enough places in women's shelters. There should be good counseling. Dark paths should get better lighting.

The CDU wants to give women and girls better career opportunities and free job profiles from gender stereotypes early on. It argues that women in Bremen are employed less often and unemployed more often than in other German states.

The CDU wants better job chances for women. Girls should get to know all kinds of jobs, without prejudice. Jobs done mostly by women should pay better. Women without a degree should get help.

The CDU wants half of the leadership positions in the state administration and state-owned companies to be held by women, as long as suitable female candidates are available. The public sector is meant to set an example; for the party, promoting women and selecting by merit go together.

The CDU wants more women as bosses in public offices. This also applies to companies owned by the state. The condition is that suitable women apply. Parental leave should not hurt a career.

The CDU wants to do more to protect lesbian, gay, bi, trans, intersex and queer people. The state action plan against homophobia, transphobia and interphobia is to be carried forward.

The CDU wants to protect queer people better. Queer means, for example, lesbian, gay or trans. Nobody should treat them badly. Bremen already has a plan for this. The CDU wants to keep working on that plan.

The CDU wants to promptly draw up the already approved state action plan against racism across all departments. Complaint and counseling offices are to be expanded and discriminatory structures dismantled.

The CDU wants to act against racism and discrimination. Bremen should soon have a plan for this. People affected should be able to complain more easily. This should also work online and without giving a name. There should be more education on the topic.

The FDP calls for a zero-tolerance policy against discrimination of LGBTQIA+ people. It wants to expand prevention, prosecute violence and hate crime, and create contact points and safe housing.

The FDP wants to protect queer people better. Nobody should treat them unfairly or attack them. The police should pursue such crimes and count them separately. There should be more help centers and safe apartments. Schools should teach about the topic.

The FDP wants to add sexual identity to the ban on discrimination in the Basic Law (Germany's constitution). The term "race" would be replaced with different wording in the Basic Law and in Bremen's state constitution.

Germany's constitution bans unfair treatment. The FDP wants it to name sexual identity too. The word "race" should be removed from the constitution. Bremen's state constitution should also use a different word.

The FDP wants to make it easier for women to work and train and to make Bremen a model for balancing work and family. It relies on part-time training models, childcare, flexible working hours and support for women in science.

The FDP wants all women to be able to work if they wish. Training should also be possible part-time. Every training course should come with childcare. Employers should offer flexible hours. More women should work and lead in science.

The FDP wants more and better places in women's shelters, especially in the city of Bremen. The state action plan on the Istanbul Convention (the European treaty on violence against women) is to be carried out quickly and in full, including on digital violence.

Many women suffer violence at home. The FDP wants more places in shelters. There should be enough psychological care there. The FDP also wants to do more against violence online. There should be a special counseling center for that.

The FDP wants people with disabilities to be able to live as independently as possible and take full part in everyday life. Accessibility is to apply in public spaces, in housing and in how public authorities communicate.

People with disabilities should decide about their own lives. The FDP wants to remove barriers for them. Sidewalks and public toilets should work for everyone. Letters and forms from public offices should also be easy to access. Sign language should count as a language of its own.

The Greens want to prevent discrimination in the allocation of housing. Supervisory board members and sales staff at the city-owned housing companies are to attend mandatory training. The trigger is the BREBAU case, in which prospective tenants were tagged by origin or income.

No one should be treated unfairly when looking for a home. The Greens want required training at the city-owned housing companies. They also want to look into applications without names. Researchers should study where people are treated unfairly.

The Greens reject criminalizing self-determined abortions and want a federal rule outside the criminal code. Mandatory counseling is to become a right to counseling, and the three-day waiting period is to be dropped. Access to abortion care in Bremen and Bremerhaven is to be secured.

The Greens want abortion to no longer be a crime. The federal parliament has to decide that. Counseling should be voluntary. The three-day waiting time should go. Bremen should have enough trained staff for abortions.

The Greens want a health system that takes greater account of differences in origin, age and gender. In their account, pharmacy and diagnostics have so far treated the body of white men as the standard. Research and training are to be adapted accordingly.

The Greens say medicine often follows the body of white men. That should change. Research should look more at differences between people. Doctors and nurses should learn more about this in training.

The Greens want to create dedicated services for queer people who need care. Existing elder care facilities are to be made more aware of their situation. The platform argues that many hide their identity there for fear of rejection.

The Greens want care services for queer people. Queer means, for example, lesbian, gay or trans. Care homes should learn more about these people. Many hide who they are there because they are afraid.

The Greens want more women in Bremen to be in paid work and able to support themselves independently. Among other things, mini-jobs are to be reduced, even small jobs made subject to social insurance, and care work better paid.

Few women in Bremen work for pay. Women there also earn much less than men. The Greens want to change this. There should be fewer mini-jobs. Child care should get better.

The Greens call for a federal equal pay law with binding rules, penalties and a right for associations to sue. They also stand by a 50 percent women's quota on supervisory and management boards of companies in which the state of Bremen holds a stake.

Women and men should get the same pay for work of equal value. The Greens want a new federal law for this. Those who break it should face penalties. In state-owned firms, half of the bosses should be women.

The Greens want to create a complaints office for students and parents who experience discrimination and give it the power to impose sanctions. The existing anti-discrimination counseling is to be reviewed and expanded if needed, and all educational staff are to receive mandatory training.

Some children are treated badly at school, for example because of where they come from. This is called discrimination. The Greens want to create an office for complaints. Children and parents can turn to it. The office should also be able to impose penalties. All school staff should get training on this.

The Greens want to modernize school toilets and replace many gender-segregated toilets with single stalls. Sex education is to be taught at all schools to a high standard and in a queer-sensitive way.

The Greens want to renew school toilets. Instead of separate toilets for girls and boys, there should often be single stalls. This should also help trans and non-binary children. Lessons about sexuality should be good everywhere. They should also take queer people into account.

The Greens want transport and city planning to deliberately take the needs of different groups in society into account. According to the platform, short, barrier-free and well-lit routes mainly benefit women who combine a job with care work.

The Greens want to plan the city for all groups. Routes should be short, bright and free of barriers. The Greens say this helps women most. Many women care for children and do the shopping besides their job. Places that feel unsafe should go away.

The Greens want flags of the queer community to fly in front of the state parliament and at city hall on two days a year. This is meant as a sign of solidarity. In the party's view, visibility in public space matters especially to young queer people and strengthens their self-acceptance.

A special flag should fly at city hall on two days a year. On May 17 it is the rainbow flag. On November 20 it is the trans flag. The Greens want to encourage queer people this way.

The Greens want the justice system to better reflect the diversity of society. To that end, the headscarf ban for female legal trainees is to be lifted, diversity is to become part of legal training, and a gender advancement plan is to be created.

The Greens want a more diverse justice system. Women training to be lawyers should be allowed to wear a headscarf. Legal training should cover diversity. A plan should support women and non-binary people.

The Greens want a public service that reflects the diversity of society. Religious and belief-based clothing as well as tattoos would be allowed in all occupational groups; in the platform's view, what matters is the quality of the work.

The Greens want more diversity in the public service. Employees should be allowed to wear religious clothing, even with a uniform. Tattoos should also be allowed if they do not violate the constitution. There should be more training against discrimination.

The Greens want to set up a central, professionally run complaints office under the General Equal Treatment Act (AGG) for Bremen's public service. Confirmed cases of discrimination are to be handled according to a uniform set of measures.

The Greens want a complaints office for Bremen's public agencies. Staff can go there if they are treated unfairly. There will be fixed rules for confirmed cases. The agencies should also do more against prejudice toward Sinti and Roma.

The Greens want to make sure all employees in the state of Bremen can actually use their rights under the General Equal Treatment Act (AGG). According to the platform, only a few companies have working complaints offices so far. At the federal level, private care work is to be added to the law as a ground of discrimination.

Companies must have a complaints office against unfair treatment. The Greens say many companies do not have a good one. The party wants to help small companies with this. The law should also protect parents and people who care for relatives.

The Greens want to apply gender mainstreaming and gender budgeting more consistently. All decisions and the allocation of money are to take the life situations of all genders into account. The procedure used for the Bremen-Fonds serves as the model.

The Greens want every decision to consider all genders. This also applies to the state's money. People should be able to see who benefits from the money. Schools and career advice should also rely less on fixed gender roles.

The Greens want to carry out the state action plan on the Istanbul Convention together with the advisory board of affected people and review it continuously. Women's shelters and child protection facilities are to get lasting funding, along with new shelter places and safe apartments.

The Greens want to protect women better from violence. Women's shelters should get enough money for the long term. There should be shelter places that are always open. Police, courts and public agencies should learn more about the issue.

The Greens want women, inter*, non-binary, trans* and agender people in the state of Bremen to be able to earn their own living. To that end, low-wage jobs are to be pushed back, labor market programs and daycare expanded, and the equal pay strategy carried out.

FINTA* means women, inter*, non-binary, trans* and agender people. They should be able to live on their own work. So the Greens want fewer badly paid jobs. There should be more flexible daycare. Equal work should get equal pay.

The Greens want to continue the state action plan against homophobia, transphobia and interphobia until 2035 and anchor it more firmly in politics and administration. A new state queer commissioner is to coordinate its implementation. Counseling services for queer people are to keep receiving support.

Bremen has a plan against hatred of queer people. The Greens want to continue this plan until 2035. A new commissioner should take care of it for the state. Counseling centers for queer people should get more money if more people come.

The Greens want to rewrite Bremen's state equality act, the Landesgleichstellungsgesetz. In the future it is to cover all gender identities and thereby advance equal treatment of all genders in the public service.

Bremen has a law on equality in the public service. The Greens want to change this law. It should then apply to all genders. This includes people who are neither women nor men.

The Greens want an anti-discrimination law for the state of Bremen that lets affected people sue for damages. In addition, a study called the Bremen Monitor is to collect experiences of discrimination so that policy rests on evidence.

The Greens want a new law against unfair treatment. The law applies to the state of Bremen. People who are treated unfairly can then sue for money. A study should also ask people in Bremen and Bremerhaven about their experiences.

The Greens want to support organized sports in drawing up prevention and anti-discrimination plans. A funding program is to bring more women into leadership roles in clubs and associations. The platform argues that sports are a particularly good place to counter homophobia, racism and the stigmatizing of people with little money.

Nobody should be treated badly in sports. The Greens want to support clubs in this. More women should lead clubs and associations. A funding program should help with that. People with disabilities should also get their own sports offers.

The Greens want to give economic policy a feminist orientation and use gender equality as an asset for the business location. Women are to be strengthened as workers and skilled staff, as founders and in leadership positions. The platform bases this on the often precarious situation of women in Bremen's labor market.

Women should have the same chances in business as men. The Greens want to support women as skilled workers and as founders. More women should become bosses. Work and family should fit together better.

The Left wants to achieve equal pay and higher employment among women mainly through better childcare. In addition, the state government is to develop its own strategies against labor-market discrimination of people with a migration background and people of diverse gender.

Women should earn as much as men. More women should be able to work. This needs enough childcare, also in the late afternoon. Other groups should also get equal chances at work.

The Left calls for abolishing Section 218 of the criminal code, thereby legalizing abortion in principle. It wants to introduce a Bundesrat initiative for this. Doctors who perform abortions should clearly be free from criminal liability.

Abortion is part of the criminal code today. Section 218 sets the rules. The Left wants to abolish this section. Abortions should be legal in principle. Bremen should demand this in the Bundesrat.

The Left wants to upgrade occupations with a high share of women and ease women's access to better-paid fields such as IT. The state strategy on gender fairness and equal pay is to be implemented and support for single parents expanded.

Women often earn less than men. The Left wants to improve jobs where many women work. More women should work in well-paid jobs, for example with computers. Single parents should get more help. This includes flexible childcare.

The Left wants to implement a strategy against unequal pay between women and men that involves all government departments. More women should work in jobs with social insurance coverage and in skilled and leadership positions.

Women often earn less than men. The Left wants to change that. All government offices in Bremen should work together on it. More women should have good, stable jobs.

The Left wants to quickly implement the state action plan on the Istanbul Convention, the European treaty against violence toward women. It calls for more money for prevention and education, training for police and the justice system, and a ban on so-called knockout drops.

Many women experience violence, often at home. The Left wants more money for protection and education. Police and courts should be trained better. Knockout drops should be banned.

The Left wants more places in women's shelters and a central office that allocates them. For homeless, addicted and prostituting women, safe spaces, counseling and emergency sleeping places are to be expanded.

Women's shelters protect women from violence. The Left wants more places there. One central office should hand out the places. Women without a home should also get protection and help.

The Left wants to fund meeting places, counseling centers and cultural institutions for girls, women and queer people on a permanent rather than temporary basis. Grants should allow staff to be paid according to collective agreements.

Bremen has meeting places and counseling for girls and women. The Left wants to give them money for the long term. Staff there should be paid under union contracts. Women in politics should also get more support.

The Left wants to declare International Women's Day on March 8 a public holiday in the state of Bremen.

March 8 is International Women's Day. The Left wants this day to be a public holiday. Then most people have the day off.

The Left wants to permanently fund and expand counseling, education and cultural programs for queer people. Medical care for trans and intersex people is to be improved.

The Left wants more services for queer people. Counseling and school education programs should get long-term funding. Trans people should get better medical help. Bremerhaven should get a meeting place for queer youth.

The Left wants a state law that broadens protection against discrimination, creates a right for associations to sue and enshrines participation rights for migrant self-organizations. Public housing companies are to allocate apartments under transparent rules.

The Left wants a new law against unfair treatment. Associations should be allowed to go to court for affected people. Immigrant groups should get fixed rights to have a say. Public offices should use more languages and plain language.

The SPD wants to launch a state program for equality between women and men in the labor market. It points to a pay gap of almost 20 percent and to many women working part-time and in mini-jobs. In its view, equality also makes economic sense as a way to close the skilled-labor gap.

Women often earn less than men. Many women work part-time or in mini-jobs. The SPD wants to change that. It wants to start a program for equal chances at work. More women should also become managers.

The SPD wants to fund projects that open a path into the general apprenticeship market for young people with disabilities. It notes that about 90 percent of the school leavers concerned currently end up working in sheltered workshops.

Many young people with disabilities later work in a special workshop. The SPD wants to open another path. They should be able to train at a regular company. The SPD wants to fund projects for this.

The SPD wants apartments to be allocated without discrimination. The state anti-discrimination office is also to handle suspected cases on the housing market and help those affected gather evidence.

No one should be treated unfairly when looking for a home. The SPD wants a contact point for this. People affected can turn to it. The office helps them collect evidence. The city's housing companies should be checked.

The SPD wants a balanced gender ratio among teaching staff. It plans to specifically reach out to men, especially men with an immigrant background, for jobs in schools and daycare centers.

Few men work in schools and daycare centers. The SPD wants more men in these jobs. It is thinking especially of men from immigrant families. It plans an ad campaign for this.

The SPD wants to take action against racism, antisemitism, ableism and sexism in schools. To this end, information and prevention work is to be expanded.

The SPD wants no exclusion at schools. Nobody should be treated badly because of origin, religion, disability or gender. Schools should teach more about this. Teachers get training on it.

The SPD wants to strengthen protection against discrimination through an active anti-discrimination policy. Racism, antisemitism and anti-Muslim hostility are to be fought at both the structural and the individual level.

Some people are treated worse because of where they come from or their religion. The SPD wants to protect them better. It wants to act against hatred of Jews and Muslims. It works with religious communities to do this.

The SPD supports a diversity strategy for all administrations and companies in which Bremen holds a stake. More people with an immigration background should work there, including in leadership roles.

Few people from immigrant families work in public offices. The SPD wants to change that. More of them should work there. They should also be able to become managers. Staff in daycare centers and schools should get training on this.

The SPD wants to advance equal and self-determined participation for people with disabilities. The focus is on the broadest possible accessibility of buildings, digital services and information.

People with disabilities should be able to take part everywhere. The SPD wants to remove barriers. This applies to buildings and to the internet. Information should be understandable for everyone. People with disabilities should have a say.

The SPD wants the construction of accessible housing to take greater account of the needs of people with different kinds of disabilities. In addition, all counseling centers are to make their services inclusive.

The SPD wants more homes without barriers. The homes should suit different disabilities. Counseling centers should also work for everyone. That includes people with disabilities.

The SPD wants to ensure full participation for migrants and refugees with disabilities and to give special support to queer people with disabilities. The state anti-discrimination office is also to be open to people with disabilities.

Some people with disabilities face extra hardship. These include refugees and queer people. The SPD wants to give them special help. The state office against discrimination should also help people with disabilities.

The SPD wants to identify and remove obstacles to real gender equality. It sees gender policy as a task that affects every area of government action.

Women, men and other genders should have equal chances. That is not yet true everywhere. The SPD wants to find and remove the obstacles. It wants to pay attention to this in every policy area.

The SPD wants to attract more women to technical and scientific occupations while also raising the standing of jobs mostly held by women. Career guidance in schools is to start early and avoid gender stereotypes.

The SPD wants more women in tech jobs. Schools should talk about careers early. They should not use clichés about women and men. Jobs done mostly by women should get more recognition.

The SPD wants to implement Bremen's state strategy for gender equity in working life and equal pay during the coming term. Business development funding is to be made gender-equitable, with the "gender traffic light" serving as the first step toward comprehensive gender budgeting.

Bremen has a plan for equal chances for women at work. The SPD wants to carry out this plan. Public money for businesses should also help women. The state should check this when it hands out money. This is called gender budgeting.

The SPD wants to fully implement the Istanbul Convention in Bremen and strengthen the protection system for women and girls affected by violence. This includes better funding for women's shelters, a legal right to free admission, and measures against femicide.

The SPD wants to protect women and girls better from violence. Women's shelters should get more money. Every woman in need should get a free place. There should be a help center open day and night. Killings of women should be prosecuted better.

The SPD wants to protect LGBTQIA+ people in Bremen more strongly against hate and violence and to fund services for them. Plans include queer youth programs, new meeting places, more contact officers in the police and education sector, and an updated state action plan.

The SPD wants to protect queer people better. Queer people include lesbian, gay and trans people. There should be more meeting places and youth groups. The police should have more contact persons for queer people. Older queer people should also be able to live well.

The SPD supports several federal government plans on queer rights. These include a self-determination law to replace the Transsexuals Act, a new law of parentage, and a ban on discrimination based on sexual identity in the Basic Law.

The SPD supports national plans for queer people. The old Transsexuals Act should go. A self-determination law should replace it. Same-sex married couples should have equal rights, also in adoption. The constitution should ban discrimination based on sexual identity.

The SPD wants health care and nursing to take greater account of differences by gender and background. To that end, training is to be adapted, gender medicine considered, and women included more in research.

Women and men get sick in different ways. A person's background also matters. The SPD wants doctors and care workers to learn this. Research should pay more attention to women. Schools and colleges should offer free period products.

The SPD wants to examine women's advisory councils on the Berlin model and launch them as pilot projects in selected districts. Women are to take part on equal terms in district councils and citizen participation and receive extra support for this. The Landesfrauenrat (state women's council) is to receive permanent institutional funding.

The SPD wants to test women's councils in some districts. Women should have an equal say in local politics. There should be support for this, such as child care in the evening. The state women's council should get permanent funding.