The ceremony of the 100. Anniversary of women’s right to vote has prompted President of the Bundestag Wolfgang Schäuble (CDU), the company to respect the equality of woman and man. She was a “unaufgebbarer principle of our Constitution,” said Schäuble on Thursday in the Bundestag. Schäuble praised the then use the women for their rights. The active and passive right to vote was granted to men and women. Fought for and won by the women themselves would have it.

Schaeuble said that the anniversary will be celebrated something Self-evident. Women could participate with men in the shaping of the state, politics and society. At the same time, he stressed that the transformation of General ideas about the role of gender have taken a long time and is continuing. The drop in the proportion of women in the Bundestag, and their under-representation in other parliaments, recalled, said Schäuble.