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Eva Herman at the press conference for the publication of her book.

The Eva Principle is the title of a book published in September 2006 by journalist and former television presenter Eva Herman . Its publication at times sparked a broad debate about gender roles in Germany.

Cicero article

In May 2006, the political magazine Cicero published an article by Eva Herman and the head of department Christine Eichel on the childlessness of Germans, which the front page introduced with the line “Back to the stove!”. In it, Herman advocated the classic distribution of roles between women and men in a marriage: the woman is the mother, the man is the “strong and protective part”. She rejected feminism . The old age of career-oriented women is said to be "in many cases a time of painful reflection and deep remorse". Having children is no longer a matter of course for women, but just a possibility. She suspected that the women were masculized as a result of the emancipation movement. Instead of an “externally determined claim on women to kindly imitate men”, she demanded “the right to the traditional role as woman and mother” and emphasized their “destiny” with reference to the biblical story of creation .

These theses already sparked a debate in the media, which also shaped the inclusion of Herman's book in autumn 2006.

Main theses of the book

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The principle simplifies the role of the mother at home in the first three years after the birth, which is decisive for the development of a child, and the man in employment. Family and motherhood are ultimately more important for “happiness and satisfaction” for a woman than a professional career and complete independence. The woman should return more to her “femininity” and refrain from “selfish” solo efforts. Femininity is based on fundamental biological differences between men and women.

In one chapter of the book, Herman was also critical of National Socialist family policy .

reception

Alice Schwarzer responded to the Cicero article in April 2006 with the comment: "Women shouldn't waste any more time with such nonsense in 2006." The ARD had to ask "whether their Tagesschau spokeswoman with such sexist elaborations against them." The principles of public broadcasters are violated - and the prescribed 'credibility' of a news anchor is dismantled! "

In an interview at the end of May 2006, Hermans called her theses published up to then a " Suada between mother cross and stone age club". They are an example of the fact that in the current debate about parental allowance , family policy and demography , women are involved in giving working, single parents and childless women a “guilty conscience”, intimidating them and thus weakening women's emancipation . She explained the decline in the birth rate, also noted by Herman, as a “silent birthing strike ” by German women, “because they no longer have to become mothers at any cost. Most want children, but they also want a job. And above all: they want support from their fathers and the state. "

The former family minister Renate Schmidt criticized the book the following day in the daily newspaper as “pompous writing” with a “pastoral and self-righteous style” of “tearful arrogance”. In it, Herman represents a “ Barbie doll worldview” and tries to turn back the female emancipation fought for by feminists, without whose success Herman would have had hardly any career opportunities and would have become neither a news anchor nor a book author. It demonizes child care across the board by depicting behavioral problems, drug use, violence and criminality among children as their inevitable consequences. The empirical facts contradict this. Herman should have followed her own advice that "women should shut up more often".

The entertainer Désirée Nick referred to Herman's theses in her reply Eva go home! At the beginning of 2007 as a “chain of false reports” and “inhuman, seditious and racist slogans”. Herman is untrustworthy because, even as a working woman, she lives differently from what she demands of German women. She discriminates against East Germans as “ crib victims”, describes working women as dependent on the “drug work”, which disrupts their hormonal balance and changes their appearance in such a way that men refuse to procreate. She describes single mothers as suicidal without any statistical evidence. Herman is a "dubious hobby sociologist" who plays herself as a "savior", "mother convalescent" and "world savior".

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  1. ↑ Eva Herman: The Eva principle. For a new femininity. Pendo Verlag, 1st edition, Starnberg 2006, ISBN 3-86612-105-9
  2. ^ Eva Herman: Emancipation - a mistake? ( Memento of the original from December 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Cicero, May 2006  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cicero.de
  3. ↑ Emma , April 27, 2006: Satire or Voice from the Stone Age?
  4. ↑ Der Spiegel, May 29, 2006: Panic in Patriarchy
  5. ^ Renate Schmidt (taz, September 8, 2006): The tears of the mother animal
  6. ↑ Deutschlandradio, January 19, 2007: Back to the stove? Désiréé Nick criticizes the "Eva principle"