What do the parties in Rhineland-Palatinate say on equality and diversity?

The AfD rejects quota rules in working life. In its view, quotas replace performance and suitability with gender and treat women across the board as a weaker group. Jobs should go to the best applicants.

The AfD does not want quotas for women at work. A quota says how many jobs must go to women. The AfD says only skill and performance should count. The best applicants should get the job.

The AfD wants to raise the number of women's shelters in Rhineland-Palatinate from 19 to 36, so that every independent city and every county has one. The state would cover most of the municipal share of the costs. Women's emergency helplines are also to be expanded and made better known.

Women's shelters protect women and children from violence at home. Today the state has 19 of them. The AfD wants 36 shelters. The state should pay most of the cost. Helplines for women should also grow.

The AfD wants to repeal the Selbstbestimmungsgesetz (Self-Determination Act). Protected spaces such as women's shelters, saunas and changing rooms are to be open only to biological women. The platform justifies this with dangers it sees for women.

The Self-Determination Act lets people change their legal gender easily. The AfD wants to end this law. Women's shelters and changing rooms should be only for biological women. The AfD says this protects women better.

The AfD wants to cut state funds that it says promote a "gender ideology" and to keep such content out of daycare centers and schools. Gender-altering treatments would be allowed before age 18 only when medically necessary. The party justifies this with the welfare of children.

The AfD rejects what it calls gender ideology. The state should stop paying for it. Daycare centers and schools should no longer teach it. Under 18, treatments to change gender should be allowed only for medical reasons.

The Greens want people with disabilities to be able to represent their own interests through professional structures. To that end, municipal advisory councils and commissioners are to be established across the state and political participation expanded.

People with disabilities should be able to speak up for their own rights. Every county and big city should have a council for this. Voting should be possible without barriers. There should be offers in easy-to-read language.

The Greens want to make all state-owned buildings accessible by 2035 and enforce digital accessibility. The state action plan on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is to be updated, and state law checked against the convention.

All state buildings should be free of barriers by 2035. Websites of the state and towns should work for everyone. Blind people should get more money. The state should think of people with disabilities in every decision.

The Greens call on the federal government to replace Ehegattensplitting (joint tax splitting for married couples) with individual taxation, because in their view it structurally disadvantages women. At state level, a program is to support companies that voluntarily review their pay and close gaps between women and men. Equal opportunity officers are to get a stronger position.

Married couples today often pay taxes together. The Greens say this is unfair to women. Each person should be taxed alone. Companies should get help if they pay women and men the same. Equal opportunity officers should get a stronger role.

The Greens want to keep expanding women's shelters, transitional housing, emergency hotlines and intervention centers, and to fully implement the Istanbul Convention in the state. The federal Gewalthilfegesetz (violence assistance act), which grants a right to free protection and counseling from 2032, is to be implemented consistently. Prevention and stricter federal rules are added to this.

The Greens want to protect women better from violence. There should be more places in women's shelters. Hotlines and counseling should grow too. Harassing women with shouts on the street should become a crime. Boys and young men should learn early to solve conflicts without violence.

The Greens want a state anti-discrimination act to close gaps in protection and give affected people ways to defend themselves. An eased burden of proof is to apply in discrimination law. Counseling centers are to be expanded and the state action plan against racism continued.

No one should be treated unfairly, for example because of skin color, religion or disability. The Greens want a state law for this. It should help people defend themselves. There should be more counseling centers. Schools and public offices should offer courses against racism.

The Greens want to better protect queer people from violence and hostility, including through permanently funded centers in all larger cities and an updated state action plan. The state constitution is to name sexual orientation and gender identity as protected characteristics. Parentage law is to be modernized and multi-parent families given legal security.

Queer people are, for example, lesbian, gay or trans. The Greens want to protect them better from violence. Large cities should have permanent meeting places with counseling. The state constitution should clearly protect queer people. Children should be able to have more than two parents with custody.

The SPD wants to make it easier for women to return to work after or during a family phase. Reliable childcare, flexible working hours, training and counseling are meant to help, also to secure skilled workers and prevent poverty in old age.

Many women take a break from work for their family. The SPD wants to make their return easier. There should be good childcare and flexible working hours. Women should also get advice and courses.

The SPD wants women and men to receive equal and transparent pay for work of equal value. It also wants the share of women in leadership positions to rise permanently.

The SPD wants equal pay for women and men. This applies to work of equal value. More women should become leaders. The state will keep supporting women to get there.

The SPD wants victims of domestic or sexual violence to get protection, counseling and support quickly anywhere in the state. To that end, more places in women's shelters and further safe spaces are to be created.

The SPD wants to protect women and girls better from violence. There should be more places in women's shelters. Victims should get help and advice quickly everywhere. They should be able to have evidence secured without filing a police report.

The SPD backs a separate criminal offense for verbal sexual harassment, known as catcalling. Women are also to be better protected from hate, threats and feeling unsafe online and in public spaces.

The SPD wants verbal sexual harassment to become a crime. This is called catcalling. Women should feel safe outside. They should also be better protected from hate on the internet.

The SPD wants to fight antisemitism in every form and expand the protection of Jewish life. The party points to the sharp rise in antisemitic incidents and crimes as the reason.

The SPD wants to act against hatred of Jews. Jewish people should be better protected. There is a state commissioner for Jewish life. This work should be strengthened.

The SPD wants to continue and further develop the state's action plan against racism and group-focused hostility. The office that records such incidents is to be supported and made better known.

The state has a plan against racism. The SPD wants to keep this plan and improve it. There is an office where people can report hateful incidents. The SPD wants to support this office. More people should know about it.

The SPD wants to continue and implement the state action plan "Rheinland-Pfalz unterm Regenbogen" (Rhineland-Palatinate under the rainbow) to strengthen the rights, visibility and protection of queer people. Queer centers are to receive permanent funding.

The SPD wants to protect queer people better. Queer people are, for example, lesbian, gay and trans people. The state has a plan for this. The SPD wants to keep this plan going. Queer centers should get money permanently.