What do the parties in Schleswig-Holstein say on equality and diversity?

The CDU wants leadership positions in the state administration, in state-owned companies, and in companies majority-owned by the state to be filled half by women and half by men. The public sector is to lead the way. Time taken for family should not harm careers, and more women are to be attracted to STEM professions.

The CDU wants more women in leadership positions. In the state administration, equal numbers of women and men should lead. This also applies to companies the state owns. People who care for children should not be at a disadvantage at work. More women should choose technical jobs.

The CDU aims for parliaments and municipal councils with equal numbers of women and men and wants to keep filling the state government on a parity basis. However, it rejects legal quotas for parties' candidate lists. Instead, political work is to become more family-friendly, for example through digital and hybrid meetings.

The CDU wants more women in politics. But it does not want a law with fixed quotas for party lists. Politics should fit better with family life. Meetings should also be possible online. There should be childcare during meetings.

The CDU considers gender-sensitive language important but sees its use as fundamentally a private matter. Government agencies and state institutions should apply it only within the rules of the Council for German Orthography; the party rejects gender symbols there as a matter of principle. Schools are to follow these rules as well.

The CDU says language should address women and men. In private, everyone should decide for themselves how to write. Government offices should follow the official spelling rules. The CDU rejects symbols like the gender asterisk there. Schools should also teach by these rules.

The CDU wants to further strengthen women's counseling centers, child protection facilities and the KIK network against domestic violence. Prevention work in schools is to grow, and affected men are also to receive counseling and protection. The platform argues that prevention is the best protection against violence.

The CDU wants to prevent violence in families. Counseling centers for women should get more support. Schools should teach more about the topic. Teachers should get training for this. Men who suffer violence should also get help.

The CDU wants to provide enough places in women's shelters across the state and set uniform quality standards. Women who do not need a shelter should quickly get a home of their own.

Women's shelters protect women from violence. The CDU wants enough places across the state. A new shelter is planned in the north. All shelters should be equally good. Women should also find a home of their own faster.

The CDU wants people with disabilities to be able to decide about their own sexuality and to be better protected from sexual violence. To that end, support services and staff training are to grow.

People with disabilities should decide about their own sexuality. The CDU wants to protect them better from sexual violence. There should be more counseling and therapy for this. Professionals should also learn more about it.

The CDU wants to continue and expand the state action plan against racism, with a focus on prevention. At the same time, it opposes what it sees as sweeping accusations of racism and wants historical names explained rather than removed without debate.

The CDU wants to keep working against racism. The state has a plan for this. The CDU wants to continue that plan. But it is also against claims of racism made without reason. It wants to explain old names, not just remove them.

The CDU wants to strengthen the LGBTQIA+ community and oppose social discrimination against it. Queer ways of life are to be represented in education, and counseling and contact points are to be available across the state.

The CDU wants to support queer people. These are, for example, lesbian, gay or trans people. No one should treat them unfairly. They should have a place in education. Help and advice should be available all over the state.

The CDU wants to take action against violence targeting queer people and to reduce discrimination. At the state and federal level, it also wants family law rules to be reviewed.

The CDU wants to protect queer people better. Queer means, for example, lesbian, gay or trans. The party wants to act against violence. There should be less unfair treatment. Family law should also be checked.

The CDU wants to keep supporting the state's national minorities and ethnic groups and give them financial planning security. Existing funding arrangements, including for the Danish school system, are to stay in place.

Several minorities live in Schleswig-Holstein. They include Danes, Frisians, and Sinti and Roma. The CDU wants to keep supporting them. They should be able to live their culture and language. The money for this should stay secure.

The CDU wants to make the post of commissioner for Jewish life and against antisemitism permanent and fund it. Synagogues and community centers are to get money for security and renovation, and an action plan is to rely mainly on education.

The CDU wants to protect Jewish life in the state. There is a commissioner against hatred of Jews. This post should stay for good. Synagogues should get money for security and repairs. Schools should teach about Jewish life.

The FDP rejects any obligation to fill management and supervisory boards of companies with state ownership half with women and half with men. Balanced representation is a goal, it says, but must not rank above the merit principle.

The FDP does not want a fixed rule for equal numbers of women and men on boards. This is about companies partly owned by the state. The FDP thinks equal numbers are good. But the best-suited person should get the job.

The FDP wants to promote equality but rejects quota rules and opposes discrimination against any gender. It backs equal pay for work of equal value, pay transparency and diversity management in public institutions. People are not to be reduced to membership in a group.

The FDP wants everyone to have equal opportunities. It rejects fixed quotas. Women and men should earn the same for work of equal value. Men and non-binary people should also be able to become equal opportunity officers. Public offices should promote diversity.

The FDP regards LGBTIQ rights as human rights and wants to further develop and adequately fund the state action plan for acceptance. It supports the federal plans, including a self-determination law to replace the Transsexuals Act and an amendment to the Basic Law. So-called conversion therapies are to be banned completely.

LGBTIQ stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex and queer people. The FDP wants to strengthen their rights. Nobody should be treated worse because of who they love or their gender. A new self-determination law should come. Counseling centers should have secure funding.

The FDP wants to strengthen women's shelters, including their child protection rooms, and women's counseling centers in the state, and to expand protection from violence. Women should find it easier to return to an independent life after staying in a shelter.

The FDP wants to strengthen women's shelters. Women find protection from violence there. Counseling centers for women should also get more support. Afterward, women should find it easier to live on their own again.

The FDP wants to keep supporting Jewish life and to call out antisemitism whatever its source. It is open to recognizing Islam, provided there is a broadly legitimized organization that unquestionably stands by the Basic Law. It also wants to promote imam training in Germany.

The FDP wants to keep supporting Jewish life. It wants to speak out clearly against hatred of Jews. It is open to recognizing Islam. For that, there must be an organization that stands by the constitution. Imams should be trained in Germany. Imams lead prayers in a mosque.

The FDP wants to keep supporting and adequately funding the institutions of the Danish minority, the Frisians, and the German Sinti and Roma. It promotes the idea of a House of Minorities and wants to write the commitment to the German minority in Denmark into the state constitution.

Danes, Frisians, and Sinti and Roma live in Schleswig-Holstein as minorities. The FDP wants to keep funding their institutions. It would like a House of Minorities. The German minority in Denmark should also get help.

The Greens want to counter discrimination starting in daycare and school. Teachers and school staff are to learn about discrimination in their studies and in further training. Lessons are also to cover hate speech, fake news and violence against women and queer people.

Some children are treated unfairly at school. This is called discrimination. The Greens want teachers to learn more about it. Lessons should cover hate on the internet and fake news. Violence against women and girls should also be a topic.

The Greens want schools and youth work to be safe places for queer young people. Gender identity and sexual orientation are to be addressed across subjects, not only in sex education. The program says many queer youths do not come out for fear of discrimination.

Queer young people love or live differently from most others. Many hide this at school out of fear. The Greens want schools to be safe places for them. Many subjects should talk about diversity. Teachers should get training on this.

The Greens want to make women and inter, non-binary and trans people more visible in academia and call for quotas for professorships and leadership posts. A statewide coordination office for diversity is to be created. The party rejects a ban on full-face veils at universities.

The Greens want more women in top jobs at universities. They want quotas for this. A quota is a fixed share. Trans, inter and non-binary people should also get more protection and more say. The Greens reject a ban on face veils.

The Greens want to repeal Section 218 of the Criminal Code, which makes abortion a criminal offense. Those affected should have easily accessible options for an abortion close to home. In addition, there is to be help for treating female genital mutilation.

A law makes abortion a crime. The Greens want to remove this law. Women should be able to get an abortion near where they live. Women with genital injuries should also get help.

The Greens want to include people with disabilities in all relevant political processes in the state and remove barriers. Binding rules are to secure accessible participation. The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is the basis, and inclusion is to be considered in every policy area.

People with disabilities should help make political decisions. There should be fixed rules for this. Information should be easy for everyone to understand. People who need support should get it.

The Greens want a statewide plan to protect women with disabilities from violence. Protection and support services are to be accessible, easy to reach and close to home. The platform cites this group's high risk of experiencing sexual, physical and psychological violence.

Women and girls with disabilities often face violence. The Greens want a statewide plan to protect them. There should be advice centers close to home. These centers should be free of barriers.

The Greens want to recognize sign language as a minority language so that it can be protected and supported. Public administrations are to keep promoting Leichte Sprache (easy-to-read German) and multilingualism. This is meant to give everyone access to important information.

Deaf people speak with their hands. This is called sign language. The Greens want to give this language special protection. Public offices should write more in easy language.

The Greens want to make March 8 a public holiday and significantly raise the share of women in local politics. They also want to tackle different prices for women and men for the same products.

The Greens want a new holiday on March 8. That is Women's Day. More women should take part in local politics. Women should not pay more than men for the same products.

The Greens want to expand women's shelters and counseling centers across the state, especially in rural areas, and fund them long-term. Violence against women is to be treated as a matter of internal security and tackled with a dedicated strategy.

The Greens want to protect women better from violence. There should be more women's shelters and counseling centers. Rural areas especially lack such places. They should get lasting funding.

The Greens want to give targeted support to women and girls in career choice, education and professional advancement, especially in technical fields and in starting businesses. Gender budgeting is to be extended in the state budget, and the party wants a federal ban on sexist advertising.

The Greens want to support women and girls at work. More women should study technology and computer science. Women who start a company should get help. Ads that put women down should be banned.

The Greens want to create a state-level office for queer issues to coordinate the state government's queer policy. Counseling for queer people is to be expanded together with municipalities, especially on gender diversity and in rural areas.

The Greens want a commissioner for queer issues. Queer means, for example, lesbian, gay or trans. There should be more counseling for queer people. This applies especially in rural areas.

The Greens want health and nursing care that responds to the needs of queer people. Facilities would be able to earn a quality seal, staff would receive training, and counseling services would be expanded.

The Greens want better health care for queer people. Queer means, for example, gay, lesbian or trans. Good clinics should get a quality seal. Staff should learn more about this. There should be more counseling.

The Greens want to expand the state action plan "Echte Vielfalt" (Real Diversity) into a version 2.0, working with queer organizations. Queer education, counseling and youth work would get professional structures reachable across the state.

The state has a plan for queer people. It is called "Echte Vielfalt" (Real Diversity). The Greens want to make this plan bigger. It should get more money. Counseling and youth work should get paid staff.

The Greens want to reach a state agreement with Muslim communities and conclude treaties with other religious communities as well. Jewish life is to become more visible, and the state's law on church-state relations is to be updated to reflect today's diversity.

People of many religions live in the state. The Greens want an agreement with Muslims. Jews and Alevis already have one. Jewish life should be easier to see. The rules for religions should become more modern.

The Greens want to make March 8, International Women's Day, a public holiday in Schleswig-Holstein. If further holidays are added later, they will push for January 27 and May 8.

March 8 is International Women's Day. The Greens want this day to be a holiday. Later, two more holidays could follow. These are January 27 and May 8.

The Greens want to draw more women and inter*, non-binary and trans* people into IT jobs and fill IT positions on a parity basis. The platform argues that the digital world has so far been shaped mostly by men and that issues like digital violence get too little attention.

The Greens want more women in IT jobs. This also applies to inter, non-binary and trans people. IT jobs should be shared equally. Girls should get early support in math, technology and science.

The Greens want dedicated funding for IT projects run by women and FINT* people. Hackathons exclusively for these groups are also to be supported.

The Greens want to give money to IT projects by women. This also applies to FINT* people. These are women, inter, non-binary and trans people. There should also be coding events only for them.

The Greens want the state administration to reflect the diversity of society. They plan a recruitment campaign, easier conditions for trans*, inter* and non-binary employees, and gender-balanced dual leadership.

More young people and more women should work in public offices. People from different backgrounds should work there too. Hiring should be easier for trans people. Two people should be able to lead an office together.

The Greens want to introduce a state law against discrimination that strengthens people who are treated unfairly by public authorities. Those affected would be able to claim damages from the state. Civil society organizations are to receive permanent funding.

The Greens want a law against discrimination. Discrimination means someone is treated unfairly, for example because of their origin. People treated unfairly by an authority should be able to claim money from the state. Associations should be allowed to sue for them.

The Greens call for an in-depth reckoning with structural and institutional racism, which they regard as a violation of the constitution's equality guarantee. People with a migration background are to be better represented in important positions.

The Greens want to do more against racism. They want to study everyday racism in towns and cities. People from immigrant families should have more say. A federal law should make this happen.

The Greens want to act against racism directed at Muslims and to work with Muslim associations and civil society to do so. Measures against racism toward Black people and against antiziganism are also to be supported at the state level.

The Greens want to fight racism against Muslims. They want to work with Muslim groups. People without a religion should join the talks too. The Greens also want better protection for Black people and Roma.

The Greens want to fight antisemitism in every part of society and provide comprehensive protection for Jewish institutions. The documentation center LIDA and the office of the state commissioner are to be strengthened, and events featuring antisemitic speakers are to receive no state money.

The Greens want to fight hatred of Jews. Jewish people should be safe in the state. One office should record incidents better. Groups that spread hatred of Jews should get no state money. Teachers should get more training.

The Greens want a binding quota of at least 50 percent women in the top management levels of companies in which the state holds a stake. Additional measures are to take inter, trans and non-binary people into account.

The state owns shares in some companies. At least half of the bosses there should be women. This should be required. Inter, trans and non-binary people should also be included.

The Greens want equal support for the state's three national minorities: Sinti and Roma, Frisians and the Danish minority. Their languages are to be supported in German schools as well, and centers would inform the public about the minorities.

Three national minorities live in Schleswig-Holstein. They are Sinti and Roma, Frisians and the Danish minority. The Greens want to support all three equally. Their languages should also be taught in German schools. New centers should inform people about the minorities.

The SPD wants to protect people with disabilities from discrimination by law and expand their participation in education, leisure and work. The state action plan under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is to be developed further and the accessibility fund continued. Wherever possible, the goal is employment in the regular labor market.

The SPD wants to protect people with disabilities better from unfair treatment. Schools, day care centers and youth clubs should be free of barriers. More people with disabilities should find work in regular companies. Pay in sheltered workshops should go up.

The SPD wants a statewide gender equality strategy with goals and measures for the government and its agencies. Among other things, it is meant to narrow the pay gap between women and men, upgrade social and care professions and strengthen equal opportunity officers.

On average, women earn less than men. The SPD wants to change that. The state should get a plan for equality. Equal opportunity officers should get more support.

The SPD wants to set up a statewide, accessible program against domestic and sexual violence. In addition, a coordinating women's counseling center against online violence is to be created. The platform points to gaps in the existing support system.

Many women face violence at home or online. The SPD wants a program against this for the whole state. There should be a new counseling center against online violence. Children who see violence at home should also get help.

The SPD wants to push for an amendment to the Basic Law (Germany's constitution) to make parity laws possible, which would fill parliaments equally with women and men. A state cabinet led by the SPD is to be half women.

There are more men than women in parliaments. The SPD wants to change that. For this, the constitution should be changed. In an SPD government, half of the minister posts should go to women.

The SPD wants to create more places in women's shelters, cover their costs in full and assign more staff per resident. Every county and independent city is to have a women's shelter. Other counseling centers are to be strengthened as well.

Women's shelters protect women from violence. The SPD says there are too few places. It wants more places and more staff. The state should pay the costs.

The SPD wants equal rights for same-sex married couples, especially in adoption, and equal treatment of queer people under the law. The state action plan against transphobia and homophobia is to be continued and expanded. The party rejects bans on gender-inclusive language.

The SPD wants equal rights for queer people. Same-sex couples should be treated equally in adoption. A plan against hostility should continue. The SPD is against bans on gender-inclusive language.

The SPD wants gender-inclusive language in school not to be marked as an error, without imposing rules on schools about using it. Teaching staff should decide for themselves whether to wear religious symbols such as a headscarf, as long as the face remains visible.

Some pupils write in a gender-inclusive way. The SPD wants this not to count as a mistake. But schools do not have to use it. Teachers may decide for themselves about wearing a headscarf. Their face must stay visible.

The SPD wants to continue funding for minorities and ethnic groups in Schleswig-Holstein and extend long-term planning security to the Sinti and Roma as well. The platform sees the state's cultural diversity as a strength and the minorities as bridge-builders in the border region.

Several minorities live in Schleswig-Holstein. They include Frisians, Danes, and Sinti and Roma. The SPD wants to keep supporting them with money. The funding should be secure for a long time. This should also apply to Sinti and Roma.

The SPD wants to continue the fight against antisemitism and ensure support for victims of antisemitic acts. For antiziganist incidents, it wants to examine statewide monitoring and secure counseling and prevention there as well.

The SPD wants to protect Jewish people in the state better. Victims of hatred against Jews should get help. Sinti and Roma face hatred too. The SPD wants to check whether the state can count such incidents. They should get counseling as well.

The SPD wants to create a state anti-discrimination law in Schleswig-Holstein to support and legally protect people affected by discrimination. Diversity is also to become more visible in politics, for example by making it a criterion for public funding of political work.

Some people are treated worse, for example because of where they come from. This is called discrimination. The SPD wants a new state law against it. The law should protect those affected. Diversity should also count more in politics.

The SSW wants minority and regional languages to be visible and usable in everyday life. More bilingual signs are to be put up, and the languages are to be usable in court without disadvantages.

The SSW wants more signs in two languages. For example in German and Danish. People should be able to speak their minority language in court. This should not cost them anything.

The SSW wants to strengthen protection for Sinti and Roma at the European, federal and state levels. EU countries are to make binding commitments, and the federal government is to create an office against antiziganism. In the state, the minority's cultural work and educational support are to keep receiving funding.

The SSW wants to protect Sinti and Roma better. Antiziganism means hostility toward Sinti and Roma. There should be a federal commissioner against it. The EU should also do more. Helpers should support the minority's children in kindergarten, school and job training.

The SSW wants to make equal funding for the Danish minority's institutions permanent and secure it by law and contract. Municipalities, the state and the federal government are each to carry their share. In the party's view, this funding is a precondition for these institutions to exist.

The Danish minority has its own kindergartens, schools and care services. The SSW wants them to get as much money as others. Towns, the state and the federal government should pay for this. This should be firmly fixed in rules.

The SSW wants to secure women's shelters and counseling centers for women and girls and expand them according to need, in order to meet the Istanbul Convention. Support and counseling services for men are also to grow.

The SSW wants to keep and expand women's shelters. Women find protection from violence there. There should also be more counseling centers for women and girls. Men should get more counseling too.

The SSW demands that the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities be implemented consistently at every level of government, with those affected involved. This includes an allowance for deaf people, more accessible housing, and accessible medical practices.

The SSW wants more rights for people with disabilities in daily life. Deaf people should get their own allowance from the state. There should be more homes without barriers. Doctors' offices should be open to everyone too.

The SSW wants women and men to be paid equally for their work and aims to close the gender pay gap. People who have reduced their hours should get a right to return to full-time work. Gender quotas should also be met and more women brought into leadership positions.

The SSW wants equal pay for women and men. People who work part time should be allowed to go back to full time. The SSW says this helps many women. More women should become managers.

The SSW backs repealing Section 219a of the Criminal Code and wants to take abortion out of criminal law. The current rules would be replaced by a law on the Danish model that provides a general right to abortion until the end of the twelfth week. Mandatory counseling would be replaced by a voluntary service.

The SSW no longer wants abortion to be part of criminal law. Pregnant people should have a right to an abortion up to week 12. Denmark is the model. Counseling should be voluntary. Doctors should be allowed to inform openly about abortions.

The SSW wants to end legal disadvantages for lesbian, gay, bisexual, intersex and trans people. The Basic Law's ban on discrimination should be extended to cover sexual identity, and same-sex couples should have the same rights in matters of parenthood. It also wants a joint federal-state program against anti-queer violence.

The SSW wants equal rights for queer people. The constitution should clearly protect them from unfair treatment. Lesbian and gay couples should have the same rights as parents. There should be a program against violence toward queer people. Trans people should get better health care.

The SSW wants parliaments to have equal numbers of women and men and sees the way politics is organized as one cause of the imbalance. Lawmakers with a newborn should be able to hand their seat temporarily to the next person on the list. The state should also practice gender budgeting.

The SSW wants as many women as men in parliaments. Politics should fit better with family life. Lawmakers with a baby should be able to take a break. Another person from the party list takes over during that time. The state should spend its money fairly for all genders.

The SSW demands that everyone affected by violence get an enforceable nationwide right to help. Women's shelters and counseling centers for women should be adequately funded and expanded. The party also wants to expand and permanently secure services for crime victims.

The SSW wants this: Anyone who suffers violence should have a right to help. This should apply in all of Germany. Women's shelters and counseling centers should get enough money. There should be more protection services for men too. Victims of crime should get more help.

The SSW wants the state to actively promote participation for everyone and ensure no one is disadvantaged because of origin, gender, religion, age or sexual identity. It calls for actively anti-racist policy and backs the action plans against racism.

The SSW wants all people to have equal rights. No one should be treated worse because of skin color, origin or religion. The state should do more against racism. There should be more counseling centers.

The SSW wants Jewish people to live safely and practice their faith without fear. The office of the state commissioner for Jewish life and against antisemitism should continue, and educational work against antisemitism should be strengthened.

The SSW wants Jewish people to live in safety. They should practice their faith without fear. The state should keep a commissioner against hatred of Jews. School classes should keep visiting memorial sites.