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Equal Opportunities for Older Women |
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| Special seminar "Frauen werden älter" (Women get Older) | |||||||||||||||
| Communicational details | |||||||||||||||
| Address: Bundesministerium für soziale Sicherheit und Generationen, Abteilung 3/1, Sektion für Frauenangelegenheiten, Ballhausplatz 1 1010 Wien Austria |
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| Contact persons and their
known foreign languages: Mag. Eva Krichmayr, Organiser/ Legal department, English |
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| Telephone:
+ 43-1-53 115-2325 Telefax: + 43-1-53 115-4297 E-Mail: eva.krichmayr@bmsg.gv.at Internet: www.bmsg.gv.at |
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| About the initiative | |||||||||||||||
| Status of the initiative: | The initiative is an initiative aimed at improving equal opportunities for older women through an organisation that pursues objectives which are independent of gender or age. | ||||||||||||||
| The initiative has the dicisive support of
the following organisation: ehemaliges Bundesministerium für Frauenangelegenheiten und Verbraucherschutz nunmehr: Bundesministerium für soziale Sicherheit und Generationen, Abt.III/1, Sektion für Frauenangelegenheiten |
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| Address: Ballhausplatz 1 1010 Wien Austria |
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| Telephone:
0043-1-53 115-2325 Telefax: 0043-1-53 115-4297 E-Mail: eva.krichmayr@bmsg.gv.at Internet: www.bmsg.gv.at |
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| Content and framework conditions of the project work | |||||||||||||||
| The initiative was founded in: 1999 | |||||||||||||||
| The initiative was founded because of the following reasons: | On the occasion of the "International Year of the Female Senior Citizen 1999" a seminar was to be organised specifically on women's issues and aimed at establishing the current status of older and old women and their needs, now and in the future. | ||||||||||||||
| 1-day seminar on 23.6. 1999 (with an evening programme) | |||||||||||||||
| Target group(s): | No specific target groups. The actual target groups were people who work with older and old people. | ||||||||||||||
| Targets: | To establish the concrete needs of older women and work out new strategies and possibilities for positioning this group of women. | ||||||||||||||
| Details of the work done by
the initiative: The seminar took the form of
a workshop in which the participants were given great scope for getting involved in group
work and discussions. |
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| Success that the initiative
has achieved: Through the discussions on the various themes, plans could be worked out for further collaboration among the participants and new objectives set by and for older women. These objectives included: a new positioning of older women in society, a more balanced relationship between the sexes (as opposed to the common subdivision of older people into "active" men and "resigned" women), an intensification of the holistic approach in dealing with physical and psychological changes in women in the menopause, and a more comprehensive effective networking among the women experts. |
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| Problems that the initiative has been faced during its work: | |||||||||||||||
| Participation of the target
group concerning the conception, planning and implementation of the initiative's work: The concept for the seminar came from Mag. Königshofer, specialised in work with older and old people since 1993. |
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| Information: We are available for people interested in receiving more information on our initiative by phone, post or e-mail. |
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| Organisational background of the initiative | |||||||||||||||
| Staff: 6 salaried employees at the supporting organisation. |
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| Budget: 107,000.-- Schillings for the whole event (organisation, room rental, fees, refreshments, etc.) |
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| Publications or information
material available on our initiative: Can be sent by post on request. |
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