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Equal Pay for Equal Work - the Role of Women in the Labor Market was the title of a presentation at the 6th Workshop of Austrian Feminist Economists (FemÖk), which took place on October 30 at Johannes Kepler University. You can listen to Andrea Weber, Professor of Economics at the University of Mannheim, in a contribution entitled "Equal Pay for Equal Work - the Role of Women in the Labor". The event was organized by the Institute for Women's and Gender Studies with the support of the Vienna Chamber of Labour.

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Bodies on the stage. Women's bodies on stage.
On October 23, there was a poetry slam and a writing workshop on this topic. This event was supervised by Yasmin Hafedh aka YASMO - Poetry Slam Champion 2013, and Esra Özmen aka EsRAP. We spoke to YASMO and Esra about what motivated them to take to the stage and who motivated them to do so. More info: www.fiftitu.at

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fem.pop: Frederik Dörfler, member of the SR Archive of Austrian Popular Music, tells us more about the database on the Austrian music scene in a short interview. There are also recordings from the workshop that took place on September 6, 2014 as part of the Archivia conference organized by Radio FRO and Ars Electronica.

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fem.pop is a long-term study by the Archive of Austrian Popular Music (SRA) on women in Austrian pop music. SRA has analyzed its database on the Austrian music scene, which has been built up over two decades, conducted interviews with Austrian female musicians and music industry employees and compiled information to provide an insight into the gender distribution in popular Austrian music. the data is now publicly available in 2014.

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The traveling traders from FIFTITU% were on the Danube again in 2014. This time on the topic of musical resistance. At three tables on June 29, the three invited experts: Birgit Michlmayr aka Mayr, Ulli Mayer and Helene Grießlehner, discussed with the participants. First we listen to a recording of the Danube cruise, followed by a summary of an interview that took place with the experts after the cruise

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On the occasion of International Whores' Day on 2 June, advice centres and the self-organization of sex workers repeatedly draw attention to the institutional and structural violence against sex workers. This year, maiz - self-organization by and for migrant women - invited people to a city tour "On the trail of sex work in Linz".

After the city tour, there was an open-space discussion.

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"No Time to Get Old" is a video documentary by filmmaker Sol Haring. It is about the aging of female artists. The film portrays twelve American women in their 50s from the cities of Akron, Ohio and Little Rock, Arkansas. The women talk about getting older, they talk about their artistic work and they make music!

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"in memoriam GABRIELE HEIDECKER"

On April 14, 2008, Gabriele Heidecker passed away at the age of 47. Gabriele Heidecker was born in Linz in 1961. she worked as a surveying technician for 13 years before studying architecture at the University of Art and Design Linz in the 1990s. Her work focused on space - in particular public space - as a cultural configuration of social relationships. Gabriele Heidecker has realized numerous projects ranging from public arts and curatorial work to building projects, architectural concepts and architectural mediation. Her life has been characterized by a constant commitment to cultural and women's political issues.

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