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On the occasion of this year's 8 March the transcultural, women*political association Feminism and Riot once again organized actions in the city centre of Linz. We serve up a review of these

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This year's Frauen*preis der Stadt Linz was awarded to the GewaltOpferBetreuungsTeam (GOBT) at Kepler University Hospital Med Campus III. We spoke to GOBT initiator* Monika Kern about the activities and what this award means for the team. You can also listen to recordings from the award ceremony.

On the occasion of International Women's Day, the Alliance 8 March in cooperation with the VFQ - Society for Women* and Qualification organized a symposium on 10 March 2017 in the Redoutensäle in Linz on the topic "Getting Loud... For Women*'s Rights and Democracy".

Karin Neuwirth from the Institute for Legal Gender Studies at the Johannes Kepler University Linz and Ulrike Knobloch, Professor* of Economics and Gender at Vechta University, gave their theoretical input presentations on the topic of women's rights and democracy as part of the symposium of the same name.

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"5-2 Minutes"- feminist news

Island is the first country in the world to legislate that companies must pay men* and women* the same for the same work and publicly state this. The law is a measure to make unfair pay for women* and men* a thing of the past. This should happen by 2022, if the politicians have their way. "It's time to do something radical," said Minister for Equality and Social Affairs Þorsteinn Víglundsson about the planned measure to tackle the problem of the gender pay gap.

According to a study by THUMP, women* made up on average only 17% of headliners at popular music festivals around the world in 2016. Smirnoff's "Equalizing Music" initiative, in partnership with THUMP and Broadly-VICE, aims to bring together music fans and industry leaders* to double the number of female*-identified and non-binary producers* and DJs on festival lineups by 2020.

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FIFTITU% invites you to a panel discussion on Queer Language and LGBTQIA* Linguistics on March 29 as part of the "Non-discriminatory Language" project. The event starts at 5.00 pm in the Info-Beisl in the Willy*Fred Haus at Graben 3 in Linz.

The music in the program comes from Emika