!!!Frauenpolitik

Women's Issues have received increasing attention in western 
democratic societies since the late 1970s. Political action in favour 
of women's issues has taken different forms:

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Autonomous action regarding women's issues has its roots, on the one 
hand, in the  Women's Movement of the 19th century and, on the other, 
in that of the 1970s. Adherents deliberately stay aloof from 
established institutions such as the political parties. They give 
ample scope to women's needs and conceptions of the way in which they 
want to organise their personal relationships, their lives, working 
conditions and participation in political life, and favour actionist 
forms of political activity.

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At the institutional level in respect of women's issues are seen as 
topics that have to be placed in the frame of reference of 
governmental structures. Institutional policy-making focuses on the 
inequality of women at work, in social matters and in politics as 
compared with male standards. In terms of day-to-day policy-making it 
is concerned with the achievement of equal rights (particularly by 
legislative action). In so doing it relies on existing institutions 
(including parliament and the government). Thus, Austria's political 
parties have set up separate women's organisations to promote women's 
causes. In addition, women's issues are also represented by special 
women's institutions within the administrative and political system 
(e.g. the Ministry for Womens' Issues or secretaries for women's 
issues at municipal level).

!Literature
S. Rosenberger, Frauenpolitik in rot-schwarz-rot, 1992.


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