20 Years of Gender Mainstreaming in Austria. Kick-off Event Organised by the Federal Ministry for Women and Integration and WIFO

Julia Bock-Schappelwein

23.01.2020

20 Years of Gender Mainstreaming in Austria

Kick-off Event Organised by the Federal Ministry for Women and Integration and WIFO

In 2000, the Austrian federal government committed itself to implementing the gender mainstreaming strategy at national level. The twentieth anniversary year was launched by the Federal Minister for Women and Integration and WIFO with a joint event.

The event was opened by Susanne Raab, Federal Minister for Women and Integration, and Christoph Badelt, Director of WIFO, and was under the honorary patronage of the Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen. In the course of the afternoon the most important successes, impulses and obstacles were pointed out. In addition, it was outlined how the vision of a gender-equitable society can evolve in the future.

Apart from Tamara Geisberger (Statistics Austria), Marie-Christine Hopfgartner as well as Jesús Garcia-Latorre (both Federal Ministry for Sustainability and Tourism), Helga Kromp-Kolb (University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Vienna), Traude Kogoj (ÖBB), Friederike Schwarzendorfer (Federal Ministry of Finance), Helmut Berger (Budget-Directorate of the Austrian Parliament), numerous WIFO experts also gave speeches. Julia Bock-Schappelwein gave a lecture on "Gender Mainstreaming – What have we achieved so far", Julia Bachtrögler on "Gender Budgeting – An effective instrument for achieving more equality" and Margit Schratzenstaller-Altzinger debated with Vera Jauk and Gerhard Wagner under the title "Impulses for the future: How can the potential and dynamics of gender mainstreaming as an important equality policy strategy be rekindled for future challenges?".