Erika Pircher

Erika Pircher (* 1956 in Bolzano ) is one of South Tyrol originating social scientist , organizational development , management consultant , university lecturer , feminist and gender researcher . She lives and works in Salzburg , Munich and Bozen.

life and work

Pircher studied political science , journalism and communication science at the University of Salzburg and received her doctorate in 1985 on the political decision-making process for the Austrian Equal Treatment Act of 1979. In 1986, she researched the phenomenon of nationalism and neo-fascism among the South Tyrolean social scientists and the Austrian study center for peace and conflict resolution Voters of the Italian language group in Bolzano. Pircher is considered to be one of the co-founders of Austrian women and gender studies in the 1980s and 1990s. Together with the social scientist Birgit Buchinger , who works in Salzburg, she described the mechanisms of the glass ceiling for women in 1992 and defined the term glass ceiling , which originated in the American scientific discourse, for the first time for the German-speaking area.

On behalf of the Austrian Ministry of Women , Erika Pircher worked at the Salzburg Institute for Everyday Culture together with the psychotherapist and disability activist Aiha Zemp in two research projects on the subject of sexual violence. In these empirical studies (1995, 1997), in which women and men with physical or mental disabilities living in Austrian facilities for the disabled were surveyed, the extent of sexual violence to which people with disabilities are exposed was scientifically proven for the first time worldwide.

In 1996 she founded the company GenderLink, a network for social research, with the educationalist Elfriede Ch. Neubauer, with a focus on the implementation of social science gender and diversity projects .

In the second half of the 1990s, as a project manager at EU level with Managing E-Quality (MEQ), a management training program to raise awareness of equality and the compatibility of work and private life for women and men, one of the first instruments of gender mainstreaming in Europe at the company level.

From 2002 to 2008 Erika Pircher worked as a lecturer for gender research at the Faculty for Educational Research of the Free University of Bolzano for the courses in social work and social pedagogy .

Since 2008 Erika Pircher has been working mainly as an organizational and corporate developer at the Salzburg cooperative "Consalis Development Consulting" and as a business coach in her own practice in Salzburg and Munich.

Part of an exhibition with photographic works by Erika Pircher in Salzburg 2019

In addition to her professional activity, Erika Pircher works as an artistic photographer . She received training in this regard at Fotohof Salzburg from Herman Seidl and Elisabeth Wörndl and in workshops with Gérard Pleynet and Sabine Klem in Munich.

Awards

1997 Gabriele-Possanner-Förderungspreis for scientific work that is conducive to gender democracy for the manual "Johanna Bond & the secret of the glass ceiling"

Fonts (selection)

With Max Preglau: Production and reproduction - inequalities in the areas of gainful employment as well as unpaid housework and care work and voluntary work , in: Ethnic differentiation and social stratification in South Tyrol, Atz, Hermann / Max Haller / Günther Pallaver (eds.), Baden -Baden 2016, pp. 135–165

From child prodigy to successful entrepreneur - coaching at the interface to organizational development , in: Sulz, Serge KD, Burkhard, Sabine (eds.): The coaching case book, 13 reports on effective business coaching, Munich 2014

Gender relations and equality policy in South Tyrol , in: Südtirol 360 Grad - a landscape on the test bench, ed. Kreisel / Ruffini /, Reeh / Pörtge, Lana 2010

With Maria Schwarz-Wölzl: Managing Diversity - theoretical challenges and operational practice , in: SWS-Rundschau 4/2005, pp. 533-576 - Buchinger, Birgit / Pircher, Erika / Ulrike Gschwandtner / Gabriele Reinstadler: 1 × 1 is more than Eins, Stages on the Way to Equal Opportunities, Ed. IG Metall, TRANSNET, Frankfurt / Main 2002 - Pircher, Erika / Eugene Sensenig-Dabbous: 7 Steps to Equal Opportunities, Handbook on Equality and Compatibility of Work and Private Life, Ed. Frauenbüro der Stadt Vienna / MA 57, Vienna 2001

PMit Elfriede Ch. Neubauer: Frauenbericht 2000 - The living and work situation of women in South Tyrol . Edited by the Autonomous Province of Bozen, Bozen 2000

With Birgit Buchinger and Ulrike Gschwandtner: Equal Opportunities and collective bargaining in Austria , In: Transfer, European Review of Labor and Research, 2/2000, pp. 272–289

With Aiha Zemp and Elfriede Ch. Neubauer: Sexual exploitation of girls and women with disabilities , in: Amann, Gabriele / Rudolf Wipplinger (ed.), Sexual Abuse, Overview of Research, Counseling and Therapy, Ein Handbuch, Tübingen 1997, 2. 1998 edition, pp. 738-755

With Ilse König and Birgit Buchinger: “Managing E-Quality” - a workshop report, in: Im Aufbruch, Company Promotion of Women in Austria, Ed. Bendl, Regine / Ulrike Papouschek / Ulli Pastner, Vienna 1998, pp. 209–220

With Aiha Zemp: "Because everything hurts with violence" - Sexual exploitation of girls and women with disabilities , series of publications by the Minister for Women, Vol. 10, Vienna 1996

With Birgit Buchinger: Johanna Bond and the secret of the glass ceiling - A manual to find out about discrimination in the world of work , Ed. Federal Minister for Women's Affairs, Vienna 1995

With Rudolf Benedikter, Norbert Dall'O, Karl A. Kumpfmüller and Giorgio Mezzalira (editors): Nationalism and Neofascism in South Tyrol , research project of the Austrian Institute for Peace Research and Peace Education, Vienna 1987

Advancement of women in Italy: Positive actions , in: Jansen, Mechtild (Hgin), Halbe-Halbe, The dispute about quotation, Berlin 1986

Women's interests and equal treatment using the example of the Equal Treatment Act , in: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft 4/1984, pp. 443–456

Web links

Commons : Erika Pircher - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

personal data
SURNAME	Pircher, Erika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Social scientist, university lecturer and feminist
DATE OF BIRTH	1956
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bolzano