What does beer consumption have to do with women's rights? A surprising amount if you follow the author Claudia Teibler into the past. More than a hundred years ago, women didn't have many opportunities to work, let alone to fulfill themselves: upper-class women should please stay at home while bored. The women from the lower classes, forced to work by poverty, often ended up as waitresses in the hospitality industry - but the job was nothing compared to today. The...
Exactly ten years ago, the United Nations proclaimed International Day of the Girl for the first time. Every October 11th, imaginative campaigns draw attention to discrimination and the rights of girls - so that they have the same opportunities as boys. There will also be celebrations in Munich, with a party on Marienplatz. A conversation with Lisa Hyna, 32, who is involved with the children's rights organization Plan International Germany.SZ: Why do we need an International Day of the Girl?Lisa...
Spain has a major, long-unrecognized problem: menstrual poverty. Surveys show that more than 40 percent of women in the country cannot choose the hygiene product they want because it is too expensive for them. "These data are depressing," says Spanish Equal Opportunities Minister Irene Montero. Combating menstrual poverty is therefore a "duty to protect the health of all women".Montero supports a demand from the Spanish women's movement: that menstruating people should not have to pay VAT on tampons, pads and...
There is hardly any other place where role clichés are cultivated as clearly as above the clouds: there are strict rules for airline crews as far as their appearance is concerned. While the gentlemen get away with it quite comfortably in smart trousers and ties, the female colleagues squeeze into pencil skirts, tight blazers and pumps.This is not only unfair for reasons of comfort. After all, there should be women who don't feel comfortable in skirts or who can't identify...
Of Johanna AdorjanThe film "Mother" by Carolin Schmitz shows what great things can happen when you dare something new artistically. It is based on interviews that the director did with eight mothers, completely normal women, there are actually no unusual biographies among them. They talk very openly about their experiences, including the difficult ones, revealing intimate things. These sound recordings can be heard in the film, there is almost no further text. But instead of the eight women, Anke Engelke...
Spain's Equal Opportunities Minister Irene Montero is committed to cheaper tampons and a state care system. How she deals with political hatred and why she demands a basic right to a siesta. source site
The Catholic Church is losing members en masse, some finding refuge among the Old Catholics. All doors are open to women there and celibacy is irrelevant. Who are these believers who are anything but "old"? A visit to Regensburg.Of Deniz Aykanat, RegensburgTo get to the Regensburg Old Catholics, you first have to go to the car dealership. It's in an industrial area near the Regensburg port. Inside, between shiny new cars, a path leads past a babbling indoor brook in...
When Arthur Schnitzler's "Reigen" was performed in Berlin in 1920, a huge theater scandal broke out. Because in each of the ten scenes, which are always structured in the same way, a man and a woman meet and they fuck like crazy. Soldiers with young girls, clerks with bosses, squeamish poets with fans, always up and down the ladder of dependencies and social classes. Although Schnitzler only indicated the act itself with dots in the text, the audience gasped because...
Of Susan VahabzadehIn 1992, when things were still reasonably okay in America, filmmaker Dorothy Fadiman made a film about abortion. It was called "When Abortion Was Illegal: Untold Stories" and she was rewarded with an Oscar nomination for the 20th anniversary of the now overturned precedent Roe versus Wade, which had made abortions possible. The film was a half-hour documentary in which eyewitnesses told what it was like when they were young and abortion was forbidden. source site
The world of Deutsche Bahn usually works quite binary. A train is either on time or late, a conductor is either gracious or pedantic, and those wishing to book a ticket must indicate that they are either a "gentleman" or a "lady". Since Tuesday afternoon, one of these certainties has once again become obsolete. The Frankfurt am Main Higher Regional Court agreed with a person who felt discriminated against by the railways. Because René_ Rain Hornstein, as the person calls...
