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Sex Equality Law After Kalanke and Marschall
Author(s) -
Schiek Dagmar
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
european law journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.351
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1468-0386
pISSN - 1351-5993
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0386.00047
Subject(s) - german , law , action (physics) , political science , law and economics , sociology , history , physics , archaeology , quantum mechanics
In Marschall, the ECJ looked for the second time into the admissibility of positive action in German public services; a third reference on this issue is still pending. Despite the Court’s positive response to the ‘women’s quota’ in Marschall, its application in Germany remains controversial. This article tries to shed some light on the specific conditions under which women’s quotas were implemented in Germany and on the different approaches to anti‐discrimination, indirect discrimination law and structural discrimination, which underlie efforts to justify women’s quotas against equality standards derived from EC Law.