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On the recommendation of the Green Senator for Finance, Dietmar Strehl, who is responsible for personnel issues, the Bremen administration should use the official language in a gender-sensitive manner, both written and spoken.
A 22-page handout to administrative employees presented on Thursday answered the question of where gender should be done with one word: "Everywhere!"
The colon and not the gender asterisk is recommended for the Bremen “administrative staff”.
“The time of the generic masculine, that is, to refer to people or professions as purely masculine and to include everyone else, is finally over,” said Bremen's regional women's representative, Bettina Wilhelm.
"The best evidence of this is the Duden, which consistently changes its online edition." The employees - or, according to the gender recommendation, "the employees" - are encouraged in the manual to write in a gender-neutral manner.
So the salutation: "Hello, first name, last name" or "Dear: r first name, last name" instead of "Dear Ms. / Dear Mr." as before, if an unknown person is written to.
“Role stereotypes” and “stereotypical images” are on the index of the recommendation.
So don't open any “milkmaid bills”, not even speak of “mother-child parking spaces”, “all-man maneuvers” or “team strength”.
Finally, this can also be formulated neutrally, the "Handout for Gender-Sensitive Language in the Bremen Administration" points out.