Gender, Scientificness and Ideology Who uses the term "gender" is often confronted with the charge of a principal unscientific. The brochure follows this allegation and provides you with arguments for such disputes. pdf
Gunda Werner Gunda Werner - namesake of our institute - was a philosopher, organizational developer, feminist, active as Executive Director of the FrauenAnstiftung and, until her death, a representative for gender democracy in the Heinrich Böll Foundation.
Gender Democracy Gender democracy aims to establish democracy between all genders. It then goes beyond formal equality and although it means recognising difference, it aims to ensure that equal rights and opportunities are nonetheless open to all.
Mission statement – The Heinrich Böll Foundation’s gender-democratic principles These tenets should be understood as both a social-policy vision and an organizational principle. Gender democracy is a normative concept that postulates equal rights, equal opportunities, and equal access by men and women to economic resources and political power. Such participation is the precondition for change and for the transformation of unjust and gender-inequitable conditions.
The Launch of Gunda Werner Institute in 2007 There were many people giving advice to the new institute and wishing it well, here some of their voices.
Feminism at the Heinrich Böll Foundation Feminist policies have a long and diverse tradition at the Heinrich Böll Foundation. This is also clear from the foundation's history. The Heinrich Böll Foundation emerged out of the unification of three organisations: a feminist foundation called FrauenAnstiftung, Länderstiftungen Buntstift e.V. which was linked to the green party, and the original Heinrich Böll Foundation from Cologne which was responsible for managing Heinrich Böll’s estate.
Feminist Traditions | History Where does feminism come from? This article describes in brief the developement of feminism, starting in 1791, during the French Enlightenment, when Olympe de Gouges demanded human rights and civil rights for women. At this point they were still only granted to men. Later in the 19th and 20th century, similar early feminist ideas inspired women’s movements in numerous countries to push for the right to education, paid employment, and social equality.