BSA for international women’s day: We can’t wait another 100 years to justice!

Vienna (OTS) – a few days Ago marked the 100. Changes the indent of the first female deputies to the Austrian Parliament – seven social Democrats and the Christian social goods into the back of the Parliament has been elected. This it was which the to current Federal Constitution had co-decided. Women were then entitled, after a long political Fight at all for the first Time, the General and equal suffrage was on the rise.

„We can’t wait 100 years to the lived equality of men and women!“, BSA-Chairman Beate Wimmer-Puchinger provides on the occasion of the International women’s day on 8. March clear. „The Gender Pay Gap in Austria is in the EU remains very high, women are still often part-time, poverty is still female – and now conservative organizations want to strip women of the right to a self-determined life. We are opposed to decided! We need pay transparency in salaries, mandatory quotas of 40 percent in the Supervisory boards, management positions in the private sector and the right for women in all Federal States to have an abortion in a public hospital!“

The BSA supported the demands of the trade Union PRO-GE to a right to claim for the father’s month, as well as a legal recognition of the waiting times, content vorrückungen. The BSA sees this as a key Instrument to promote the reconciliation of career and family and thus to achieve a genuine equality between men and women.

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