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Vienna in Figures City and federal province 1.700.000 inhabitants 52,6 % women City Council: 34% women
City Government: 63% women
Budget in 2010:
€ 11,4 billion
health care: social services: education and child care:
€ 1.7 billion € 1,1 billion € 1.6 billion
http://www.wien.gv.at/english/politics-administration/
average net earning per employee, 2009: women:
17.244 EUR
men:
22.966 EUR
unpaid work: household, child care/day = a women´s affair! out of 9.7 billion hours of unpaid work 2/3 is done by women , 1/3 by men labour force participation rate: women: 64,4 % men:
72,0 %
(registered) unemployment rate: women: men:
7,9 % 10,2 %
City Council Committee for woman´s affaires
CITY Council CITY Senate MAYOR
Equal Treatment Appointees
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICE Project Office
Gender & Planing
Gender Mainstreaming
8 EXECUTIVE CITY COUNCILLORS Executive City Councillor for Woman´s Issues
Executive City Councillor for Finance
Executive City Councillor for Public Health
Womans Office Finance DepartmentGender Budgeting
70 MUNICIPAL DEPARTMENTS
Health Services – Woman´s Health Appointee
Milestones 1996 Vienna Equal Opportunities Act 2005 Gender Mainstreaming is established at the Chief Executive Office 2005 Gender Budgeting as integral part of the overall budgeting process 2006 Mayor Michael Häupl signs the European Charter for Equality of Women and Men in Local Life 2008 Laws and regulations have to be checked for conformity with equal opportunities 2010 pilot project: Public procurement must consider gender aspects and promotion of women
“Gender mainstreaming must be implemented in all areas of the Vienna City Administration. At the same time, gender mainstreaming must not replace the active promotion of women.” “Together for Vienna” Coalition government agreement between the Social Democratic Party of Vienna and the Vienna Green Party Vienna, November 2010 “Gender mainstreaming provides important incentives: for equal access to the services of public administration, for a fair budgeting process, and for a good corporate culture.” Erich Hechtner, Chief Executive Officer
How do we proceed? 1. drawing attention to gender-caused differences lobbying and campaigns, gender trainings for public employees, research and information 2. integrating gender issues to all steering and controlling systems gender budgeting, quality management, gender check for legislation 3. making changes visible by means of pilot projects, such as gender sensitive child care centres
Important obstacles
Emotions: gender is a topic everybody is involved in
Persistence : how to get rid of gender steretoypes and „the inner couch potato“?
Long lasting influence of traditional administrative structures: homogenous composition of leading positions - male domination the “customer” perspective was not on the agenda
conflicting interests - more women means less men
Lack of knowledge - often difficult to prove gender impacts
Poor marketing & target orientated communication
Come on, always quibble over gender differences. That´s so childish!
You are perfectly right. Changes have to start in kindergarten!
workshops with representatives of all 70 municipal departments and enterprises of the City of Vienna to define objectives, indicators and projects
14. 09. 09
discussion with external gender experts and NGOs
29. 09. 09
resultion by the city council 25. 11. 09
Equality Action Plan
european monitoringsystem
implementation phase regular reports
2010 - 2012
Equality Action Plan Vienna, 2010 - 2012 7 fields of action 42 objectives and a considerable number of measures and activities 1. Equal access to the labour market 2. Countering gender stereotypes 3. Education 4. Public health and social care 5. Public services adapted to gender needs – e.g. urban planning, housing, sports 6. Safety and security - taking action against gender based violence 7. Equality for public employees
Gender Equality Action Plan Area of action 3 “Education” The City of Vienna employs gender-sensitive education in children’s daycare centres as a basic standard.
• Certain share of children’s daycare centres that employ gender-sensitive education
• All municipal children’s daycare centres employ aspects of gender-sensitive education • Increased efforts to employ male teachers in daycare and afterschool care • Implementation of gendersensitive education in accordance with the Vienna Education Plan
The City of Vienna supports attractive and modern educational services for girls and boys both in schools and extramural facilities.
• Share of boys and girls in extramural facilities (guided park programme, streetwork, youth centres, ...)
• Increased focus on buying media that meet the interests of boys • Further development of gender-sensitive youth work with a particular focus on boys
Now, what´s this gender stuff about ? My wife says she doesn´t need that.
You´d better take a different perspective soon. Vienna is gender mainstreaming!
Kiitos Thank you for your attention Project Office for Gender Mainstreaming Chief Executive Office – Executive Group for Organisation, Safety and Security Project Office for Gender Mainstreaming Vienna City Hall, Friedrich-Schmidt-Platz 1, 1010 Vienna, Stiege 4, Mezzanine, Room 239 Phone: (+43 1) 4000-75120 Fax: (+43 1) 4000-99-75120 E-Mail:
[email protected] Homepage: www.wien.gv.at/english/administration/gendermainstreaming/index.html
