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		</div><p>Chancellor Angela Merkel has said much more needs to be done to achieve gender equality in Germany. As Germany marked the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage, Ms Merkel said in a speech in Berlin that there is a lot still to do to achieve gender equality – notably in the worlds of politics, business, science and culture. </p>
<p>“The goal needs to be equality, equality everywhere,” she said.</p>
<blockquote><p>Nobody laughs anymore if a girl says she wants to become a chancellor</p></blockquote>
<p>“I hope it becomes natural for women and men to split up work, raising the children and doing the household equally … and I hope that’s not going to take another hundred years to get there.”</p>
<p>Ms Merkel, the country’s first female chancellor, highlighted the fact that only 30.9% of politicians in the current Bundestag are female, down from 36.5% in the previous one.</p>
<p>“We’ve achieved a lot, but there’s still much to do and we cannot accept setbacks,” Ms Merkel said at an anniversary ceremony in front of mostly female ministers, lawmakers, mayors and others.</p>
<p>She listed some of the progress that had been made in recent years, such as providing better child care and maternity leave. Ms Merkel, who’s a physicist by training, said girls should be encouraged to choose future-oriented jobs in technology.</p>
<p>As for her own role, she acknowledged to roaring applause she had made a contribution: “Nobody laughs anymore if a girl says she wants to become a chancellor.”</p>
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