The Equal Opportunities Department of the City of Stuttgart focuses on the structural inequality that people still experience today due to their gender and/or sexual orientation. Our goal and our legal mandate is to promote gender-specific equal opportunities in Stuttgart.
Our work is based on the provisions of the German Basic Law (GG), the General Equal Treatment Act (AGG) and the Equal Opportunities Act (ChG). In 2018, the so-called "Istanbul Convention" also came into force: a convention of the Council of Europe in which Germany undertakes to explicitly protect women against violence at all levels of government.