Parity laws in Germany – Caving in to Gender Backlash or Consolidating Women’s Citizenship Status? Hailbronner, Michaela Author aut Rubio Marín, Ruth Author aut Text xx# 2020 Verfassungsblog 2020-07-18 eng
electronic resource
remote
Computermedien
Online-Ressource
 In this contribution we examine the German developments in light of broader European debates. Though we believe that the German Basic Law can support stronger arguments for parity laws in representative political institutions, we do not need to make such stronger arguments here to defend the constitutionality of parity laws. For what is at stake is ultimately a question of legislative discretion: whether German legislatures are allowed to pass parity laws as a matter of state and federal constitutional law. Such legislative discretion is particularly appropriate where the constitutional text itself provides no clear standards, academic commentators disagree and where – as in this case – there exists a significant European trend towards adopting gender quotas with regional and international institutions repeatedly encouraging the adoption of such laws. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Hailbronner, Michaela funded by the government gender equality parity parliament 342 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/parity-laws-in-germany-caving-in-to-gender-backlash-or-consolidating-womens-citizenship-status/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.17176/20200718-115253-0 200718 10.17176/20200718-115253-0 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)