Today is the 111th International Women’s Day. Organizations use the day as an opportunity to make their women’s policy demands. Often, the expansion of institutional childcare is in the foreground to give mothers access to full-time jobs.
Many events have already taken place in the run-up to Women’s Day. Still, there are also some events today: With a press conference entitled “Wanted! Frauenpolitik” (Women’s Policy), the Austrian Women’s Ring will start in the morning on Ballhausplatz, criticizing, for example, the incomplete implementation of violence protection measures and economic discrimination.
Defence Minister Claudia Tanner (ÖVP) uses the day to visit female soldiers. At the “Take Back The Streets” rally, demonstrations are held in Vienna against sexism, transphobia, and patriarchal violence.
“Women’s Paths in Human Rights”
In the afternoon, the Bertha von Suttner Private University lecture on her namesake (“From Literary to Political Pacifism: Bertha von Suttner”). At the panel discussion, “Justice Speaks, “Minister of Justice Alma Zadic, among others, discusses “Women’s Paths in Human Rights. “In the early evening, the benefit concert “Sie – ungewöhnlich selbstverständlich” (“You – Unusually Self-evident”) will start, among others, with the initiator Ina Regen and the rapper Fiva at the Vienna Konzerthaus.
The establishment of Women’s Day goes back to a strike by women textile workers in the USA in 1908. According to the United Nations, women in New York protested against poor working conditions. On 19 March 1911, the first large demonstration for women’s rights took place in Vienna.
- source: ORF.at/agencies/ picture: pixabay.com
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