Equal Opportunities for Older Women
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Self-help group for women in the menopause, advice provided by the association "Frauen beraten Frauen" (Women advise Women)
Communicational details
Address:
Seitenstetteng. 5/7
1010 Wien
Austria
Contact persons and their known foreign languages:
Irene Biedermann
Ursula Hofmann
Telephone:
Telefax:
E-Mail: irene.biedermann@chello.at
Internet:
About the initiative
Status of the initiative: The initiative is a self-help initiative aimed at improving equal opportunities for older women through an organisation that pursues objectives which are independent of gender or age.
The initiative is independent and has no legal form.
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Content and framework conditions of the project work
The initiative was founded in: 2000
The initiative was founded because of the following reasons: On the basis of our own personal experience with therapy and the resulting improvement in our situations we felt the need to make other women aware of these possibilities for self-determination, so that they might expolit their own personal potential.
Target group(s): Women in the menopause (whereby we do not regard ourselves as older women)
Targets: To facilitate access by women to possibilities for self-determination, so that they might exploit their personal potential.
Details of the work done by the initiative:

A freely accessible group of women meets every 3rd week for two hours. The women exchange views and information and offer each other help. The group is looked upon as a guiding force for women in the menopause. The motto: A Woman's Best Years - On the Way to Freedom - Finding One's True Self - Consciousness-Raising Group Work Towards Self-Determination
Areas of work of the initiative:
Social contacts
Health
Sexuality
Success that the initiative has achieved:

Positive changes in the situation of individual women are already emerging (after only 10 meetings)
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:
Co-operation:
Information:

We are available for people interested in receiving more information on our initiative by post or e-mail.
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Organisational background of the initiative
Staff:

2 volunteers/honorary members.
Budget:
Sources of funding:
Publications or information material available on our initiative:
Recommended literature:

Rüdiger Dahlke, John Gray
Tips and suggestions for people interested in foundig a similar initiative:

Own initiative and self-confidence
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2001-04-25