Women in local politics! The LAG of Municipal Women’s and Equality Officers has been working toward this goal for 30 years now, but women from what was then the Bavarian Palatinate, the Prussian north between Trier and Koblenz, and the Grand Ducal Hessian region of Rheinhessen around Mainz were already working toward this goal more than 100 years ago.

The newly published brochure "Election Campaigns: 100 Years of Women's Suffrage in Today's Rhineland-Palatinate and 30 Years of the State Working Group of Municipal Women's and Equal Opportunities Officers" deals with their long struggle for women's suffrage, for a say at the local level yesterday and today, and with the connection to their own LAG history.

A five-member team from the LAG worked on the publication for around six months, researching and writing down the stories of female activists and elected representatives from then and now. The result is a unique and very personal look at the past and present of women's and local politics. After all, it was not only the major cities in Germany at that time that were places of women's politics.

More than 100 years ago, women in the various territories that now make up Rhineland-Palatinate were also committed to participating in local politics and joined forces to achieve this. The brochure is now available free of charge from the Women's Office.