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With the exclusion of women from the Upper Austrian state government, the voice of over 50% of the population is missing from this important representation. However, diversity, transparency, freedom and informed citizens are the basis of a functioning democracy. This is why the Upper Austrian Women's Government decided on concrete measures for more democracy and diversity under the motto "Democracy needs freedom - needs women".
The next parallel session will take place on May 12, 2016, once again in front of the Landhaus in Linz, and is looking forward to welcoming supporters.
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This year's TRIBUTE section of the Linz Crossing Europe Film Festival, which has just ended, is dedicated to the renowned Czech documentary film director Helena Třeštíková. She has been working as a professional documentary film director since 1974 and has created around 50 documentary works of varying lengths and in various formats (for television and cinema).
Documentary film director Třeštíková presented a cross-section of her now 40-year creative period at the Crossing Europe Film Festival in Linz alongside current works. Rosvita Kröll conducted an interview with her.
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Thirty years ago, on April 14, 1986, Simone de Beauvoir died in Paris. Florence de Hervé, a Franco-German journalist and historian, has published a biography of Simone de Beauvoir in the orange Press publishing house and gives us information about the background to Beauvoir's life. And Ulrike Schilling, a queer feminist activist, tells us about de Beauvoir's influence on the queer feminist scene today.
A contribution by our colleague Judith from Radio Corax.
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NEWS "5-2 Minutes"- feminist news
Despite misogynistic suggestions that women have no place in STEM, new research shows that women's codeis actually viewed more favorably by their peers-as long as their gender is kept concealed. The researchers, who published their findings earlier this week looked at the behavior of software developers on GitHub, one of the largest open-source software communities in the world. Women make up a very small percentage of software developers - 11.2% - and the presence of sexism in all corners of the overwhelmingly male tech industry has been well documented.
The music in the show comes from the compilation Riot Grrrl is not Dead!
