Former Chancellor Merkel is not satisfied with her promotion of women during her term in office. The number of women in her party shows that women have not been sufficiently promoted in the past.
“I have not achieved the goal that I would have liked to have achieved,” said the CDU politician at an event at the Leipzig Book Fair on Saturday evening in Leipzig. The fact that there are fewer women than men in management positions in business, for example, is dramatic. “We need parity – everywhere,” demanded Merkel. This also applies to the Bundestag, “in whatever way”.
Looking at herself, Merkel still finds it difficult to use the female form, as the former chancellor reported. “In the GDR I was a physicist. I had a degree in physics, that’s what it said on my degree.” In the meantime, she has got used to speaking of herself as a physicist. Otherwise they don’t gender, she said. “I always stick to the dictionary.”
