nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20200723-115518-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 200722s2020||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20200723-115518-0 doi eng 342 23 Suk, Julie Author aut Gender Quotas and the Injuries to Electoral Freedom Suk, Julie Verfassungsblog 2020-07-22 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Last week’s decision by the Thuringia state constitutional court to invalidate parity legislation destabilizes a widespread understanding of the German constitutional law of sex equality as seen from outside. Because Article 3.2 of the German Basic Law (GG) since 1994 has explicitly stated that “the state shall promote the actual implementation of equal rights for women and men, and eradicating disadvantages that now exist,” it was long assumed by jurists and scholars throughout the world that gender parity measures to overcome women’s disadvantage or underrepresentation in positions of power were permitted, if not encouraged, by German constitutional law. By invalidating the parity legislation, the Thuringia constitutional court calls this understanding into question. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 gender equality parity parliament Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/gender-quotas-and-the-injuries-to-electoral-freedom/ raw object