We study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on domestic violence against women in Germany in 2020. The analysis draws … online survey with counsellors and domestic violence experts. The number of violence-related requests at helplines increased … substituted help services away from ambulatory care towards helplines. We do not observe exacerbated violence in states with …

We study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on domestic violence against women in Germany in 2020. The analysis draws … online survey with counsellors and domestic violence experts. The number of violence-related requests at helplines increased … substituted help services away from ambulatory care towards helplines. We do not observe exacerbated violence in states with …

on the gender-specific health outcome of respondents aged 60+ at follow-up over a period of 13 years (for western Germany …-up in order to control for selection effects to the health outcome. The analysis was separated by sex to account for gender … earlier presence of diseases and the health condition at follow-up. Gender differences in health outcomes are partly explained …

-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). In married and cohabiting couples men's net worth, on average, is 33,000 euros higher than women's. We ….g., self-employment, no migration background, inheritances, high income) that decrease the wealth gap for women increase it for …

There is a large variation across countries of origin in the gender composition of migrants coming to Germany. We argue … that women's economic rights in developing countries of origin have three effects on their migration prospects to a place … like Germany that is far away and difficult to reach. First, the lower are women's economic rights the fewer women have …

1) an inclusive definition of gender, 2) a clarification of the feminist approach and the policy's overall goal as well … policy and stresses the importance of 4) a permanent cooperation with gender-focused and feminist organisations and 5) the … necessity to increase funding for gender-related objectives in general and 6) for feminist organisations in particular. Further …

well-being for unemployed women. Drawing upon large-scale German panel data, we use the German division as a natural … experiment to compare unemployment-related life satisfaction losses between different cohorts of East and West German women. We … different ways. Specifically, East German women were required to work full-time whereas West German women were expected to focus …