Judgment, 26 November 1987.
The plaintiff charged that guidelines of Bremen, Federal Republic of Germany, for the hiring of civil servants violated the Constitutional prohibition of discrimination on the basis of sex.  Under the Guidelines, a woman was to be given preference in hiring over a man if the two were equally qualified for the job and more men than women were employed in the same job.  The Court held that the Guidelines were not unconstitutional because they were not mandatory.  It also concluded that, because of past discrimination against women, a certain degree of correction of occupational gender imbalance was permissible.
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