2023-05-23 15:51:52
Eva Weber (CSU) has been Augsburg’s first female mayor since May 2020.
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Only eleven out of 80 major German cities are governed by a woman. They often hesitate before applying. But once elected, they lead differently from men.
SSix times Frank, six times Thomas and four times Uwe: More German cities are ruled by men with these first names than by women. Sibylle Keupen regularly notices that local politics is male-dominated when she enters a meeting room. Often she is the only woman in a room full of men. “At the beginning of my term in office, my first feeling in such situations was: I don’t belong.”
The non-party Mayor of Aachen is one of only eleven women who govern a city with more than 100,000 inhabitants. Away from the big cities, the number of women at the top of German cities and municipalities is even lower. The proportion is just around nine percent and thus significantly lower than in the rest of Europe.
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