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Equal Opportunities for Older Women |
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| Participation à la Marche Mondiale des Femmes (Participation in the Global March of Women) | |||||||||
| Communicational details | |||||||||
| Address: 3, Rue Georges Citerne 75015 Paris France |
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| Contact persons and their
known foreign languages: Mme Renate Gossard, First Chairwoman and Founder, German, English |
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| Telephone:
+ 33 (0)1 40 58 17 15 ; portable : 06 67 96 56 72 Telefax: + 33 (0)6 23 84 79 69 E-Mail: renategossard@wanadoo.fr Internet: |
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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. |
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| The initiative is independent and has the following legal form: registered association | |||||||||
| The initiative has the dicisive support of
the following organisation: Panthères grises France (Graue Panther Frankreich) |
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| Address: 3, Rue Georges Citerne 75015 Paris France |
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| Telephone:
+ 33 (0)1 40 58 17 15 ; portable : 06 67 96 56 72 Telefax: + 33 (0)6 23 84 79 69 E-Mail: renategossard@wanadoo.fr Internet: |
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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: Originally, older women were excluded from the Global March of Women: their problems were not taken seriously, and only young women's concerns were reflected in the program. This state of affairs reflected the general lack of interest among young women for older women's problems. In order to include the latter in the program as well, I made sure that the Grey Panthers were able to participate in the Global March. |
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| The initiative was founded
for a limited period of time: The Global March is limited to one year - 1999/2000 - and ends with a big get-together in Canada on 15 October 2000. |
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| Target group(s): | All women over 50 who feel affected by the problems of aging. | ||||||||
| Targets: | To raise public awareness of the increase in the percentage of old people in the population and of the problems faced by old women in particular. To educate young women more about old age. | ||||||||
| Details of the work done by
the initiative: - Contacts with the
co-ordinators of the Global March of Women; |
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| Areas of work of the initiative: | |||||||||
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| Success that the initiative
has achieved: At the present stage (May 2000) it is hard to measure our success. Nevertheless, the World March of Women is receiving a very positive echo in the media, for instance on French TV. |
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| Problems that the
initiative has been faced during its work: Few difficulties; but participation requires a great deal of personal energy and intensive personal militant commitment. |
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| Participation of the target
group concerning the conception, planning and implementation of the initiative's work: The World March mobilised over 20,000 people. The Panthers drew a lot of attention to themselves by dressing up as panthers. |
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| Co-operation: Since 1998 with the co-ordination office of the World March of Women. |
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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: 10 volunteers/honorary members. |
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| Budget: 300FF (45.73 Euro) for an entire year. |
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| Publications or information
material available on our initiative: Press articles, radio and TV broadcasts. |
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| Recommended literature: "Das Alter", Simone de Beauvoir, readings from Maggy Kuhn (founder of the Grey Panthers in the USA) and readings from Betty Friedman. |
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| Tips and suggestions for
people interested in foundig a similar initiative: Having a positive attitude, believing in what you do. Be militant, fight, use the media, your neighbours, the politicians, your friends. Have the courage to grow old! |
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