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The Federal Constitutional Court: Fifty Years of the Struggle for Gender Equality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Renate Jaeger

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It has been a long journey from the noble declaration in the Federal Republic's new constitution (Grundgesetz [Basic Law]) that women and men have equal rights, to the establishment of concrete laws and jurisprudence that now assure that women and men actually receive equal treatment and that women are no longer disadvantaged in society (and even more, laws and jurisprudence that assure that women receive support if they encounter structural disadvantages). This article, in looking back on its first fifty years of service, surveys the decisive role that the Bundesverfassungsgericht (Federal Constitutional Court) played in that journey.

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Research Article
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German Law Journal , Volume 2 , Issue 9: Special issue — Fifty Years of the Bundesverfassungsgericht , 2001 , E5
Copyright
Copyright © 2001 by German Law Journal GbR 

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