Tag: gender equality
Gender-fair language: Ask your doctor
Of course, the debate about Germany’s most famous sentence from commercial television is also due to the lack of news. But that doesn’t make the issue any less important. source…
Simone de Beauvoir’s “The Second Sex” – an exhibition – Munich
Her gaze is penetrating. Serious, resolute and a bit cold, Simone de Beauvoir looks from a large poster at all those approaching the exhibition in her honor on the ground…
Mothers are the losers of the pandemic: Many feel under great strain. – Politics
The traffic light coalition wants men and women to be equal by 2030. But there’s still a long way to go, new data shows. Mothers feel heavily burdened, old role…
Switzerland: women in government? A hot potato
In Switzerland, two of the seven government seats have to be filled. Which parties they go to is practically certain. Now it’s about the people – and surprisingly much about…
Munich: Campaign against gender-based violence – Munich
The city wants to persuade the people of Munich to take an active part in combating gender-specific violence. The Equal Opportunities Office for Women has now started a campaign for…
Book and exhibition “The Bavarian Suffragettes” – Munich
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…
Why International Day of the Girl is also important in Munich – Munich
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…
Spain: Government lowers VAT on intimate hygiene products – Politics
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…
Airline Abolishes Male and Female Uniforms – Economy
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…
Anke Engelke in “Mother”: Great virtuosity – culture
Of Johanna Adorjan The 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…