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Gesine Spieß (born January 10, 1945 in Glöwen ; † December 4, 2016 in Düsseldorf ) was a German educationalist , gender researcher and professor at the Erfurt University of Applied Sciences for the fields of childhood, youth and family, gender relations / gender studies, and socialization. She gained particular fame as the first women's representative for the North Rhine-Westphalian state capital, Düsseldorf, and as an expert on the subject of “women in management positions” and gender equality policies.

Life

Gesine Spieß studied education at the University of Düsseldorf . She did her doctorate in 1982 with the linguist and psychologist Gudula List. Gesine Spieß was married to the lawyer for commercial and labor law Friedhelm Spieß. Her daughter is the lawyer Katharina Spieß. Her son is the lawyer and Solarkiosk founder Andreas Spieß.

Act

Gesine Spieß was one of the pioneers of municipal equality policy in Germany. From 1986 she initially worked as a women's representative in Solingen. During her time as the first women's representative of the North Rhine-Westphalian state capital Düsseldorf, she built the women's office into a strong, publicly recognized and politically effective body (from 1988 to 1994). The first women's advancement plan for Düsseldorf was decided as early as 1989. From 1986 to 1989 she also acted as federal spokeswoman for the federal working group of municipal women's representatives. Another milestone in her work as a women's representative is the founding of the women's fair "TOP" in cooperation with Messe Düsseldorf , at which, for the first time in 1991 and then every two years until 1999, representatives from companies, politics and culture presented, discussed and discussed professional equality issues with great public interest network. As an expert in gender equality policy, Gesine Spieß prepared the report on “Women in Management Positions” for the German Association of Cities in 2000 . From 2014 to 2015, on behalf of the North Rhine-Westphalian Ministry for Health, Emancipation, Care and Old Age (MGEPA), she conducted a series of workshops to research the self-image of women's representatives in four federal states and developed concepts for ongoing professionalization and training. The ministry recommended the publication to the members of the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament.

From 1994 to 2010 she taught at the Erfurt University of Applied Sciences . Her research and teaching area included childhood , socialization and gender relations / women and gender studies . She also contributed to the development and exchange practice of the university partnership between the University of Applied Sciences Erfurt and the Jamia Millia Islamia University in New Delhi / India. From 1994, Spieß researched and published primarily on women and leadership , and produced comparative studies on gender politics in the GDR and the Federal Republic as well as - after the fall of the Wall - on gender issues and gender-sensitive didactics in university teaching in Eastern Central Europe. Her studies and publications deal, among other things, with the topics of socialization and gender in teaching and didactics. Spieß carried out gender trainings at universities and ministries and developed teaching concepts for gender studies with the universities of Graz and Vienna. Spieß conveyed her research results and practical concepts on gender policy and gender mainstreaming through extensive lectures in Germany and abroad.

In her gender research , Spieß synthesizes symbolic interactionism , deconstructive and constructivist approaches, with recourse to gender history .

Fonts (selection)

• Use of role play in primary schools: an investigation into the function of loud self-dialogue in action situations with and without a partner , Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1982, ISBN 978-3-8204-5831-2 and 3-8204-5831-X
• Women in leadership positions - A repositioning of the sexes between adaptation and resistance , German Association of Cities, DST Contributions to Women's Policy, Series L, Issue 5, Cologne, Berlin 2000, ISBN 978-3-88082-203-0 and 3-88082-203-4
• Father State and His Unequal Daughters , in: From Politics and Contemporary History. Supplement to the weekly newspaper Das Parlament , B. 41–42 / 98, October 2, 1998, pp. 43–46, ISSN 0479-611X
• Gender in teaching and didactics at universities - and the question of gender-competent teaching , in: Buchmayr, Maria (ed.) Learning gender - gender-sensitive didactics and pedagogy, series of studies on women's and gender history, Volume 6, Studienverlag, Innsbruck, Vienna, Bolzano 2007, pp. 33-49, ISBN 978-3-7065-4447-4
• On the situation of municipal equality officers as reflected in a series of workshops. A report by Gesine Spieß , published by the Ministry for Health, Emancipation, Care and Age of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, publication number 206, July 11, 2016, 42 pp.
• as editor with Cillie Rentmeister : Gender in teaching and didactics. Gender in Teaching and Didactics. A European conference in Erfurt. A European Conference in Erfurt , Frankfurt am Main. Berlin. Bern. Brussels. New York. Oxford. Vienna, 2003, ISBN 3-631-50153-6 , ISBN 978-3-631-50153-5

Web links

• Literature by and about Gesine Spieß in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gesine Spieß: On role-play use in primary school , Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1982
2. ↑ Katharina Spieß, author a. a. of the "dtv Beck legal advisor volume" on asylum and refugee law (with Julia Duchrow) [1] .
3. ↑ Andreas Spieß in an interview with Tim Rotter in Cicero on February 23, 2016, In Africa he builds solar systems and invigorates such small villages: Andreas Spieß, founder of Solarkiosk AG ... [2]
4. ↑ Marion Seele-Leichert in the Westdeutsche Zeitung , January 1, 2016: She was the city of Düsseldorf's first women's representative. Her predecessors did not survive the probationary period .... [3] ; Appreciation on the website of the state capital Düsseldorf [4]
5. ↑ Link to the Office for Equality between Women and Men in Düsseldorf [5]
6. ↑ Link to the chronicle of the Düsseldorf Equal Opportunities Office with activities under the direction of Gesine Spieß [6]
7. ↑ Link to the chronicle of the ancestral gallery of the "Spokespersons of the BAG municipal women's offices and equality bodies from 1984" [7]
8. ↑ See women's fair> top 93 < . Report internal to the Landtag, volume 24, issue 16 of October 12, 1993, p. 11, with photo [8] ; and the report In retrospect: Düsseldorf's women's representative Dr. Gesine Spieß and> top '91 <. Gesine Spieß in conversation with Hannelore Becker , Düsseldorfer Hefte 36 (1991) 15/16, pp. 17–19 [9]
9. ↑ From the recommendation of the ministry to the state parliament: [The study by Gesine Spieß] ... contains important information on the goals and content of further training and further education aimed specifically at the function ('professionalization'). Barbara Steffens, NRW Ministry for Health, Emancipation, Care and Old Age, source Weblink [10]
10. ↑ Link to download the study [11]
11. ↑ Gesine Spieß also did a short TV interview comparing the importance of employment in both systems: Women in East and West - Interview by Jana Rehse with the social scientist Gesine Spieß , Lexi-TV / Lexi-online des mdr, broadcast from 8 March 2011 Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 1, 2016 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. , viewed on January 28th, 2017 
12. ↑ Link to a detailed overview of the scientific contributions by Gesine Spieß [12]
13. ↑ cf. Gesine Spieß: Fully socially acceptable! - with a gender-sensitive teaching. A collection of materials . In: Anita Mörth, Barbara Hey (Hginnen): geschlecht + didaktik , coordination office for gender studies and equality of the Karl-Franzens-University Graz 2006, in full text [13]