"no longer have to be macho men!" - Some Green Men have recently written a manifesto men ( http://www.gruene-linke.de/2010/04/09/das-grune -manner-manifest / ) in which they declare: "We have Green feminists" with everything that goes with it - the claim that "New fathers place, father morgana '", more flexible working patterns for men, solve the compatibility problem for them too , health policy for men. "This is real equality, have equal rights and equal obligations to achieve only with the men - not against them. Women have expanded their options by feminism, men, this step is yet to come. ". We are thrilled. The Open women do not, at least some do not. They say the men always talk, but have no solutions and not be politically active. Do we - somehow. Party structures do not even stop at patriarchal dominance. And the manifesto of the men learned a lot of public attention, recognition and praise. The Federal Women's Conference was not. Actually, they hardly appeared in the press, not even the Greens even more striking. This is of course funny. From this Anger at the man's world, the conference was sadly borne too much of. Reversal of power relations was often expressed as a claim than the call for gender equality in the sense of the word. This may be because that, unfortunately, were the only men present the conference photographers and journalists. And yet we wondered the same thing: The written submissions in the party program and in various brochures of feminism and gender justice dedicated Gunda-Werner-foundation of the Green read excellent: Gender Democracy, there is the issue (against the general trend even political terms, or even political institutions, in principle, by Anglicisms replace, we would prefer to speak of gender democracy), genuine tripartite division of labor in work and family, the breaking of gender stereotypes, new codes of masculinity 'and' femininity '. The documents are evidence of it in particular: the commitment and the gender competence of green consultants, experts and political scientists. The fact that the present politicians in the first place are - politicians - also shows that they must cover a broader range of skills, not just experts, and perhaps even emotionally different feminist than her party program sums it theoretically. The discussed feminism in order to it at the conference largely was demonstrated again and again great reminiscences to the feminism of the 70s and 80s. Both the number of posts devoted to a slightly more aggressive understood predominance of women over men and seriously attempted justice of both sexes - not to mention that other gender, gender identity and gender attributions were not addressed or thought along. Now this may be because the conference was now a women's conference time, but it is nevertheless real question whether 30 years after Alice Schwarzer and their colleagues commendable social upheavals not but could also organize a gender-democracy conference. This is not to say that these issues were not addressed and pronounced: Annelie Buntenbach as a crusader for women's rights on the board of the German Trade Union Federation, for example, argued brilliantly against exploitative conditions of work, which concerns above all women, not only in the remuneration of the work done but also time-structures, collateral such as loss of earnings and pension schemes, and legal foundations. Above all, they emphatically opposed-time work, the "work first and work second-class" create. The head of department of taz, Ines Kappert, inspired by their consistent and strong reaction of feminism and gender democracy in question and (professional) life. The panel won primarily by their contributions to intellectual and visionary content. It was their collaboration with Claudia Roth, Gender in a position analogous to lived, mature democracy make. She stressed the need for gender-sensitive "counter-public to neo-liberalization of our society" that is not satisfied, with the "conservative emancipation without solidarity or ideas of structures, but" developed an idea of the state, can the cannibalization rid of the elites "who, who was able to act. It was important to "positive vision" to develop and "small initiatives" to begin. Roth also highlighted the immense Importance of gender equality for a stable democracy and called for help to re-position, what constitutes social wealth, whether it was relevant to the market feasibility of individual working in service provider models, or about the structural framework of "good work" for migrants or livelihoods to disadvantaged groups . Kappert pleaded visionary for shorter working hours. She called to mind just what was the emotionality of personal experiences are not often mentioned: that it was not about women and men, but rather codes for masculinity and femininity. And yet, in the pragmatics of implementation gender-political concerns in view of current political debates, internal party disputes and forced the election in NRW takes the concerns raised thousands of green visionary of their power. Yes, us women remains to be done in the field of feminism - but we are a new generation, children of the first feminists, and should develop our own feminism instead of the slogans to just take over, which were of the way first paved, such contemporary feminism to think at all - and implement them. Clearly, the issue of precarious employment relationships in science even the Greens (still) not aware of: the Comment from a workshop participant, that man / woman can not talk only about the low-skilled, quite the contrary, in higher education institutions were precarious employment relationships common practice was their right, where with an anecdote about a secretary who was in just such structures ... The objectives our generation of men and women today must surely sometimes other, more complex parts than it used to be. Read our green written. Say it. Let's do it!
