What do the parties in Saxony-Anhalt say on equality and diversity?

The AfD wants to abolish the office of the equal opportunity officer and install a family officer instead. That officer would assess how government action affects the birth rate. Laws and regulations would be reviewed for family-friendliness.

Today there are equal opportunity officers. The AfD wants to end this office. A family officer should take its place. This person checks if laws are good for families.

The AfD wants to end all state campaigns and programs that expose children to sexual topics before puberty. It calls such programs early sexualization and regards sex education as the parents' job.

The AfD wants to stop certain state programs. These programs talk with young children about sexuality. The AfD says parents should talk about this with their children. In daycare, a family with a man and a woman should count as normal.

The AfD wants to prohibit gender-inclusive language in all official state contexts and issue a guideline on good German. The platform rejects every form of gendered language reform, including forms such as "Studierende" (a gender-neutral word for students). It justifies this by holding on to inherited language forms and by readability.

The AfD wants to ban gender-inclusive language in public offices. This applies to schools, courts, and ministries, for example. Only traditional spellings should be used there. The party also rejects gender-neutral words like "Studierende." A new guideline should show what good German is.

The AfD wants to replace the "Girls' and Boys' Day" with a joint Future Day for career orientation. Boys and girls would not be separated and could choose freely. The party sees no problem in occupations being chosen at different rates by women and men.

The AfD wants to end Girls' and Boys' Day. There should be a Future Day instead. Boys and girls learn about jobs together there. Everyone can choose what they like.

The AfD wants to interpret religious freedom more narrowly and push back the influence of Islam in Saxony-Anhalt as far as the law permits. In the platform's view, this basic right has been stretched too far over recent decades.

The AfD wants to limit the influence of Islam in Saxony-Anhalt. It wants to read religious freedom more narrowly than today. The party says this right was stretched too far. It only wants to do what the law allows.

The AfD wants to issue a decree banning schools from officially displaying the rainbow flag. It sees the flag as the symbol of a movement that, in its view, attacks traditional normality, and wants schools to present the family of man, woman and children as the model.

Schools should no longer show the rainbow flag. The AfD wants to order this with an official instruction. Students may still use the flag privately, for example as a sticker. The AfD wants schools to show the family of man, woman and children as the model.

The AfD wants to end women's quotas and state programs that specifically support women at universities. In the state's Higher Education Act, the goal of "Gleichstellung" (equality of outcome) would be replaced by equal rights, and the office of equal opportunity officer would be removed. The platform argues that current policy disadvantages men and lowers academic standards.

The AfD wants to end quotas for women at universities. Programs that support only women would stop. There would be no more equal opportunity officers. The AfD says only performance should count.

The AfD wants to abolish gender studies at the state's universities and withdraw public funding from the field. In its view, gender studies are largely a political ideology rather than scholarship. The lever would be the target agreements between the state and the universities.

The AfD wants to abolish gender studies. This field looks at the roles of men and women. The AfD says it is politics and not science. The state would no longer pay for it.

The AfD rejects targets for a higher share of women and gender parity in the police. Positions should be filled solely on the basis of aptitude, performance and qualifications.

The AfD wants no quotas for women in the police. A quota sets how many jobs should go to women. Only ability and performance should count. The AfD says quotas put men at a disadvantage.

The AfD wants to remove the obligation for municipalities to appoint equal opportunity officers. Public funding should no longer be tied to gender targets or similar requirements but should follow actual need and benefit religion, local customs and culture in the villages.

Today, municipalities must have an equal opportunity officer. The AfD wants to end this duty. Gender targets should no longer matter for public funding. The money should go to religion, local customs and culture in villages.

The AfD wants to abolish the posts of special commissioners, such as those for gender equality, integration, and diversity. In its view, these offices are costly, offer residents little benefit, and serve to provide jobs for people close to other parties.

The state has commissioners for certain topics. For example, for equality and integration. The AfD wants to get rid of these posts. It says they cost a lot and help little.

The BSW wants to examine how the Selbstbestimmungsgesetz (Self-Determination Act) affects minors and sex-specific protected spaces. It bases its women's policy on biological sex and wants protected spaces separated by biological sex.

The BSW wants to review the Self-Determination Act. This law lets people change their legal gender entry. The BSW wants to know what it means for children and teenagers. Protected spaces for women should be separated by biological sex.

The BSW regards fighting violence against women as a state responsibility and wants permanent funding for women's shelters, counseling centers and safe housing. Forensic clinics for victims of violence are to be expanded statewide, femicides systematically recorded, and a state action plan on the Istanbul Convention adopted.

The BSW wants to protect women better from violence. Women's shelters and counseling centers should get enough money for the long term. There should be more clinics for victims of violence. These clinics examine and record injuries. The police should count killings of women carefully.

In the longer term, the BSW wants to repeal Section 218 of the Criminal Code, which governs abortion. At the state level, access to abortion is to improve through care mandates, training and services close to home. The party considers current provision in Saxony-Anhalt insufficient.

The BSW wants to abolish Section 218 later on. This section makes abortion a crime. Women in Saxony-Anhalt should get an abortion more easily. There should be services close to home. Clinics and doctors should get incentives to take part.

The BSW wants to prevent the requirement for municipalities to appoint equal opportunity officers from being dropped. The party sees equality work as a constitutional mandate, not a bureaucratic luxury.

Towns and cities must have equal opportunity officers today. Some people want to end this duty. The BSW is against that. The party says equality is a duty under the constitution. Budget cuts should not hurt equality.

The BSW wants to secure equal rights for everyone regardless of sex, sexual orientation or gender identity and to protect minorities from violence. At the same time it calls for stricter quality checks on publicly funded counseling centers and does not consider debates over pronouns or flags at the state parliament a core political task.

The BSW wants equal rights for all people. The state should protect minorities from violence. Same-sex married couples should also be able to live safely. Counseling centers for minorities should be checked more closely. The BSW does not think fights over pronouns and flags are very important.

The BSW wants to shield daycare centers and schools from what it regards as one-sided ideological influence. Concepts on gender, sexuality or identity should not be introduced there against parents' wishes. The party sees upbringing and teaching values as primarily the parents' job.

The BSW says parents are responsible for upbringing first. Daycare centers and schools should not bring in certain concepts against parents' wishes. This means concepts about gender, sexuality and identity. Protecting children should come first.

The BSW wants targeted support for immigrant women and girls in training and job-seeking and more places in women's shelters. It also wants more social workers in youth work and continued state funding for projects against violence and extremism.

The BSW wants to give immigrant women and girls special help. They should get support with training and finding work. There should be more places in women's shelters. The party also wants more social workers for young people.

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 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.

The Greens want to implement the Gewalthilfegesetz (federal law on help for victims of violence) and fund women's shelters reliably. Residents should no longer pay a personal contribution, so that protection does not depend on income. Shelter places, counseling and work with perpetrators are to be expanded in all regions.

The Greens want more money for women's shelters. Women should no longer have to pay anything themselves there. There should be enough places everywhere in the state. Counseling and work with offenders should also grow.

The Greens want to turn the Frauenfördergesetz (law on the advancement of women) into an equality law and advocate a parity law that complies with the constitution. It is meant to secure women's representation in parliaments. State laws would in future have to be checked for their effects on the genders.

The Greens want a new equality law. A parity law should bring more women into parliaments. Parity means that women and men are represented equally. New laws should be checked for how they affect women and men.

The Greens want to review the state action plan on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and add further measures. Public spaces, state facilities, doctors' offices and hospitals should become more accessible.

The Greens want fewer barriers for people with disabilities. This applies to buildings, public places and doctors' offices. State offices should also give information in easy language. People with disabilities should have a say in plans from the start.

The Greens want a state anti-discrimination law that prevents discrimination by public bodies and allows those affected to obtain compensation. Binding statewide inclusion standards would apply to agencies and public spaces.

The Greens want a new law against unfair treatment by state offices. People affected should be able to fight back and get compensation. The same inclusion rules should apply to offices across the state. Inclusion means everyone can take part.

The Greens want long-term funding for projects against racism, antisemitism, hostility toward Muslims and hostility toward LGBTIQ* people, which they see as a state duty to protect democracy. Counseling centers for victims of violence and migrant associations are to receive more support.

The Greens want to strengthen projects against racism and hate. These projects should get money for the long term. Counseling centers help people after violence. They should get more support too. Groups run by immigrants should also get more help.

The Left wants to improve women's opportunities in the public sector and in business and to develop the state's Frauenfördergesetz (women's advancement act) into an equality act. Jobs in daycare centers, schools, hospitals, and nursing homes should be better paid because, in the party's view, they keep society running.

The Left wants better career chances for women. Women should apply for important jobs more often. Work in daycare, schools, and nursing should be paid better. The women's advancement law should become a new equality law.

The Left wants to secure equal access for women to university study and research positions, including in university leadership. It also wants to expand research that takes differences between the sexes into account, for example in how medications work.

The Left wants equal chances for women at universities. This applies to studying and to research jobs. Women should also be equally represented in university leadership. Research should pay more attention to differences between the sexes.

The Left wants to strengthen counseling centers for women and abolish the personal contribution for staying in a women's shelter. Anti-violence projects are to receive permanent institutional funding, and shelter places and safe apartments are to be expanded.

The Left wants to protect women better from violence. Women should no longer pay anything to stay in a shelter. Counseling centers should get more support. There should be more places in women's shelters. Projects against violence should get lasting funding.

The Left wants to make paid work, family work, and civic engagement easier to combine for women and men alike. People who care for relatives should be financially secure and supported when returning to work; daycare and after-school care are to be expanded.

The Left wants to value care work more. Care work means things like nursing relatives or looking after children at home. People who provide care should not be worse off. Men and women should share this work better. There should be more daycare and after-school places.

The Left wants to create a legal entitlement to help for all victims of violence that does not depend on gender, origin, or residence status. It also plans mobile counseling, an action plan against violence, and a coordination office.

The Left wants a right to help for all victims of violence. It should apply to every person. Counselors should reach out to victims themselves. An action plan should give the issue a firm place.

The Left wants to use the Bundesrat (the chamber of the states) to have the Basic Law also protect against discrimination based on sexual and gender identity. In the state, it wants to renew the action program for LGBTI+ acceptance, better protect CSD pride events, and anchor queer topics in education.

The Left wants to protect queer people better. The constitution should explicitly protect them from discrimination. Queer means, for example, lesbian, gay, or trans. Pride events should get more protection and money. Schools should cover queer topics.

The Left calls for accessibility in Saxony-Anhalt to become a binding obligation rather than an optional rule. There would be a mandatory upgrade program for all public transit stops. The party points to the ban on discrimination against people with disabilities in the Basic Law, Germany's constitution.

People with disabilities often run into obstacles. The Left wants to change that. Accessibility should be required. All transit stops should be rebuilt. Homes and websites should also be usable for everyone. The people affected should help decide.

The SPD wants equal opportunities for women and men at work. Family-friendly working-time models are meant to distribute paid work and care work more fairly, and more women are to be drawn into STEM jobs and the skilled trades.

Women look after children and relatives more often than men. This puts them at a disadvantage at work. The SPD wants to change that. Working hours should fit family life better. More women should take up technical jobs and skilled trades.

The SPD wants to back initiatives that remove abortion from criminal law and to replace mandatory counseling with a right to counseling. It bases this on women's right to reproductive self-determination.

Abortion is part of criminal law today. The SPD wants to change that. Women should no longer have to go to counseling. But they should have a right to counseling. There should be doctors nearby who perform abortions.

The SPD treats inclusion as the yardstick of social policy. Accessibility and assistance are to be expanded, the allowance for deaf people raised and a regularly meeting disability parliament set up.

People with disabilities should be able to take part everywhere. The SPD wants more accessibility and more help in daily life. Deaf people should get more money. There should be a disability parliament that meets regularly.

The SPD wants to expand women's shelters, safe apartments, and counseling centers statewide and implement the requirements of the Istanbul Convention and the Gewalthilfegesetz (federal violence assistance act). Every affected woman should find help quickly anywhere in the state. The platform points to a rise of about 33 percent in recorded domestic violence cases between 2020 and 2024.

The SPD wants to protect women better from violence. There should be more women's shelters and safe apartments. There should be counseling in rural areas too. No woman should have to pay for her place in a shelter. Violence on the internet should also be prosecuted.

The SPD wants to introduce a parity law that ensures equal participation of women and men in the state's parliaments. It argues that equal democratic participation requires adequate representation.

There are more men than women in the parliaments. The SPD wants to change that. A law should make sure there are as many women as men. This is called a parity law.

The SPD wants to make March 8 a public holiday and create a state anti-discrimination law. Equal opportunity officers are to get more rights, including their own right to sue.

March 8 is Women's Day. The SPD wants it to be a public holiday. A new law should protect people from unfair treatment. Equal opportunity officers should be allowed to go to court.

The SPD wants to continue the state program "Queer leben in Sachsen-Anhalt" and give it fixed goals and sufficient funding. The centers for gender diversity are to grow into places for counseling and care.

Queer people are, for example, lesbian, gay or trans. The SPD wants more counseling for them. A study should show how they live in the state. The state program for queer people should go on.

The SPD wants public administration and public institutions to act as role models for equality and respect. It is also considering evaluating the state budget for its effects on the different genders.

Public offices should be a role model for equality. They should accept names and pronouns that people choose themselves. They should use language that includes all genders. The SPD is also looking at how state money affects women and men.