This text was written for the booklet for Women in Marzahn-Hellersdorf
"Women who do not require to be taken literally. You get nothing. "
Simone de Beauvoir
This realization of the great feminist Simone de Beauvoir's like a program that does not bring the time. Through my life with me saying such things as women should not rebel, but the conditions are all right or they change by itself or it can not be changed anyway. It took some experience and time to see through the attempts of the lull.
the GDR era, the International Women's Day his combative character lost. While women should rebel? The ruling had yet been taken to ensure that women could pursue a living wage job. I stayed after the birth of the child a year at home, which only slightly lowered content moved on. It would have been many reasons for claims: The burden of work, child rearing and household remained with the women. Men were only allowed in rare exceptions due to the upbringing of children remain at home. Domestic and sexual violence against girls and women was a strict social taboo. went
To ensure fair pay is already the first American textile workers in the mid-19th Century to first strike. 150 years later the demand for equal pay for equal work for women and men in our society is still not redeemed. The reputation of this blatant injustice to finally rid the world to hear again and again, he is not powerful echoes. I think it is time to forge a broad alliance, otherwise it will also mean more decades: You get nothing!
from mini-and midi-jobs, of precarious employment, which does not secure their own existence, of second and third jobs are affected, especially women. Everyone nods in this set, including representatives from industry. What follows? Area-wide minimum wage - That would be an answer to change this depressing reality. But with black and yellow, with the current business organizations, there will be no minimum wage. The demand for the nationwide minimum wage is a women's policy. not
Statutory requirements are necessary, they say, the economy is on its own. Nothing is here by itself, women do not reach the upper echelons of the German economy. A legal quota shy away from the male executives and board members and their political allies like the plague. Women will succeed with the skills and expertise, a central argument is against the odds. So far, only about three percent of executives in Female DAX companies. then the reverse is true that women are not qualified enough yet? If in fact would only decide the competence, women today have at least half of leadership positions.
Who looks at the claims, the struggle for emancipation of women, meets with the phenomenon that they were ridiculed. Sun textile workers from 1869 in Crimmitschau write a call: "Let us not be intimidated by evil prejudice. No scorn and ridicule in the society is to scare us ... "They were ignored. The mainstream media took the preparations to the first FrauenStreikTag in Germany on 8 March 1994 barely acknowledged. Only when he really imaginative in over 100 cities and towns took place, they dedicated the women's claims court.
But days like the International Women's Day, exhibitions such as these from Marzahn-Hellersdorf, Award events like the Berlin women's prize and the Berlin entrepreneurs Price, parliamentary decisions on the further development of the State Equal Opportunity Law, the daily hard work of hundreds of women's representatives and equal opportunity representative, Mrs. salons, parliamentary women's alliances, more and more emancipated men as allies - all that is encouraging and gives confidence to demand and requirements enforce.
Almuth Hartwig Tiedt is Secretary of State for Women in Berlin
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