Unfortunately, the third report from the German Government on the Federal Gender Equality Report, which is expected to be published at the end of 2020/beginning of 2021, is still pending. The first report (in German) was published in 2006, the second report (in German) in 2010. The following figures therefore only refer to the period including up to the end of 2015. 

In § 4 (1) BGleiG the purpose referred to under § 1, namely achieving gender equality, eliminating existing discrimination on the basis of gender, in particular discrimination against women, preventing discrimination in the future and improving the family-friendliness and reconciliation of family-life, care work, and employment for women and men, is outlined as the guiding principle for all bodies referred to under BGleiG in their working and decision making process. Accordingly, the duty of these bodies is to counteract inequality by taking measures. 

The percentage of women in all leadership positions throughout the whole federal public service amounts 33% in 2015. In 2009, it amounted to 30%. Regarding the Federal administration, the percentage increased in all hierarchy levels. However, an underrepresentation is still observable. In summary, one can state that women are still underrepresented in all areas of public administration. In many public offices, the higher the hierarchy position, the (significantly) lower the percentage of women. Further information can be found in the table in the red box. 

In its report on the Act on Equal Participation of Women and Men in Leadership Positions (FüPosG) , the Government published answers of the highest public offices to the question, to what extent they believe in compliance with the respective rules of Part 2 (§§ 5 through 10). According to this self-evaluation, the offices qualified their implementation of § 6 (1) and § 7 (1) BGleiG to be good or excellent. 

In the course of  training within the meaning of § 10 (1) BGleiG , the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth initiated a project on the topic of equality implementation before the BGleiG was amended. The project aimed to further incorporate the topic of equality into professional training courses for public administration employees. To achieve this aim, the professional training courses curricula of the Federal Academy for Public Service was analysed and guidelines for professional training courses that consider equal treatment principles were elaborated and published. In this publication (in German), you may find several approaches to implementing equality:

- Professional input (preferably with support from external competence) 

- Internal and external transparency and public relations work regarding the results 

- Clear regulation of the responsibility in the role and function of a person serving as gender equality offic

- Participatory design, meaning the inclusion of all employees throughout all hierarchy levels and in all functions