Gunda Werner Institute

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Gunda Werner Institute for Feminism and Gender Democracy
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founding 2007
founder Gunda Werner and Henning von Bargen
Seat Berlin
main emphasis feminism
Owner Heinrich Böll Foundation
Employees 7th
Website www.gwi-boell.de

The Gunda Werner Institute for Feminism and Gender Democracy (GWI) is an institution founded on June 15, 2007 by the party-affiliated Heinrich Böll Foundation of the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen party . The GWI is based at the headquarters of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Berlin .

Foundation and organizational structure

The institute is the amalgamation of three predecessor institutions. The FrauenAnstiftung , founded in 1987, merged with the Heinrich Böll Foundation in 1997 and at the same time a feminist institute (FI) was decided, which was founded in 1998 under the direction of Claudia Neusüß . The FI was designed as a “feminist think tank ” and part of an international network for women's research and politics ”. The Böll Foundation's Joint Tasks Gender Democracy Unit, which started work with Gunda Werner and Henning von Bargen in 1998, was merged with the Feminist Institute to form the Gunda Werner Institute in 2007 , “to organize feminism, women's and men's politics under one roof bring to". The name of the institute was chosen in honor of Gunda Werner, who played a key role in founding the institute from 1998 until her death in 2000.

The institute consists of seven employees of both sexes and is led by an institute management who reports to the board of the Heinrich Böll Foundation. Since 2007 Gitti Hentschel (until 2015) and Henning von Bargen acted as directors of the institute. In 2015 Ines Kappert took over the joint management with von Bargen.

Goals and Activities

Event u. a. with Gunter Pilz and the former Mexican national player Ana Montenegro for the GWI's Gender Kicks campaign for the 2011 Women's World Cup in 12 cities

The GWI sees itself as an interface between science and politics and wants to promote a "theory-practice transfer". It is not a research institution, but is limited to syntheses of external research. According to the political scientist Ulrich Heisterkamp, ​​the GWI has a “strategic thought leadership function” for the Heinrich Böll Foundation.

It has set itself the following goals:

  • Politicize gender issues offensively
  • Critically reflect on feminist and gender-democratic approaches
  • Promote women's rights as human rights and participation globally
  • Support and expand networks, build a virtual knowledge portal
  • Initiate discourses between science, politics and civil society
  • Actively convey gender skills through counseling

In order to impart gender competence in professional practice, the GWI conducts further training courses that are designed so that the participants work together in teams of women and men. The editors of the book Equal Opportunities through Personnel Policy (2011) took this norm of “gender- parity composition”, which was developed by Henning von Bargen and Angelika Blickhäuser, as the starting point of their analysis, which shows that gender training according to this norm “as a paradoxical effect of genders un effecting justice. " In view of the findings of gender research, it is problematic to assume that a man and a woman have to represent the gender relationship. The GWI also developed a gender toolbox in four languages ​​with exercises and materials on the topic of gender as support for multipliers, e.g. B. in teacher training.

Publications

Between 2007 and 2017, the GWI published twelve volumes of the Gunda Werner Institute's writings as well as other publications that are received in specialist books as well as in scientific and social discourse.

In her review of Volume 9 of the GWI's publications Gender, Wissenschaftlichkeit und Ideologie , which was published in 2013 , Sarah Dellmann from the University of Utrecht concluded: “The restriction to a method-critical and epistemological perspective enables the four authors to question positions that Declare yourself as "objective" and "neutral". They succeed in demonstrating the unscientific allegation, which is often generalized and polemical of gender studies, as untenable and in exposing it as politically motivated, without falling into polemics themselves. In this way, this brochure helps to deal with the results of gender research and strategies of gender equality in a factual manner. "

In the discussions about the unconditional basic income , Volume 4 of the publications of the GWI Social Security rethinking , published in 2008 (new edition 2010), is one of the reference publications . In it, the social scientist Susann Worschech criticizes the fact that the gender aspect is not considered enough or not at all in the basic income models.

  • Hinrich Rosenbrock: The anti-feminist men's rights movement. Mindset, networks and online mobilization . Ed .: Heinrich Böll Foundation (=  writings of the Gunda Werner Institute . Volume 8 ). Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86928-073-8 ( Online [PDF; 2,4 MB ; accessed on January 1, 2018]).
  • Regina Frey , Marc Gärtner, Manfred Köhnen, Sebastian Scheele: Gender, science and ideology. Arguments in the dispute about gender relations . Ed .: Heinrich Böll Foundation (=  writings of the Gunda Werner Institute . Volume 9 ). 2nd Edition. Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86928-113-1 ( Online [PDF; 2.2 MB ; accessed on January 7, 2018]).

Beijing + 20 women's rights worldwide

The Gunda Werner Institute acts as a knowledge transfer to provide information about the implementations, goals and progress of the 4th UN World Conference on Women (1995 in Peking / Beijing). The GWI particularly refers to the progress and challenges of the Peking / Beijing + 20 action, which took place in March 2015 in New York by the Commission of Status of Women (CSW) of the United Nations.

The GWI points out that gender equality is the prerequisite for social development and peaceful coexistence as well as for reducing violence and for economic prosperity . Above all, central activities, debates and strategy developments are presented, which in different regions promote equality and equal opportunities in education for women as well as the fight against discrimination and violence against women.

In addition, the BWI presents the twelve most important core areas of the Peking / Beijing + 20 platform for action and shares developments and goals of the Peking / Beijing + 20 initiative in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East & North Africa and North America.

12 key areas of the Beijing + 20 initiative
  1. Women and poverty
  2. Education and training of women
  3. Women and health
  4. Violence against women
  5. Women and Armed Conflict
  6. The woman in business
  7. Women in positions of power and decision-making
  8. Institutional Mechanisms for the Advancement of Women
  9. Women's human rights
  10. Women and the media
  11. Women and the environment
  12. girl

Controversy

Gender, science and ideology

In 2013, the institute and the Heinrich Böll Foundation published the guideline Gender, Scientific Approach and Ideology , in which gender theory critics such as Volker Zastrow , Harald Martenstein , Gerhard Amendt and Michael Klein were assigned “argumentative interfaces” to the NPD or the FPÖ . "One of these interfaces is the accusation of unscientificness." "A blow that goes beyond the serious argument, with which even Easter marches could be discredited [...]."

"Agent"

In July 2017, the Böll Foundation activated the internet project agentin.org, which it claims is an "anti-feminism-critical online encyclopedia". The Gunda Werner Institute was editorially responsible. The offer met with widespread negative criticism. It was taken offline on August 4, 2017. A text informed that the page was currently being revised and expanded to make it more understandable and diverse. On November 4th, the GWI announced that it did not want to continue the project.

The board of the Heinrich Böll Foundation announced in a statement on August 7, 2017: “The public and internal criticism of the 'Agent * In' format has made it clear to us that this path is not suitable for the socio-political debate lead to anti-feminism. We very much regret that the chosen form reminds some of anti-democratic methods and we apologize to those who may feel personally injured. "The sociologist Andreas Kemper , co-founder of the agent , announced that the project would be revised Continue form.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kai Gehring (Member of the Bundestag): Greeting to the ceremony for the foundation of the “Gunda Werner Institute for Feminism and Gender Democracy” on June 15, 2007 in Berlin , (pdf, 9 kB), accessed on August 4, 2017
  2. ↑ Quoted from Ulrich Heisterkamp: Think Tanks of the Parties? A comparative analysis of German political foundations . Springer VS , Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-658-06858-5 , p. 383 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-658-06858-5 .
  3. ^ A b c Ulrich Heisterkamp: Think Tanks of the Parties? A comparative analysis of German political foundations . Springer VS , Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-658-06858-5 , p. 384, footnote 1411 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-658-06858-5 .
  4. ^ Ulrich Heisterkamp: Think Tanks of the Parties? A comparative analysis of German political foundations . Springer VS , Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-658-06858-5 , p. 384 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-658-06858-5 .
  5. ↑ Persons of the institute on boell.de
  6. ^ Statute of the GWI, decided in the general meeting on April 20, 2007 (pdf)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.gei-boell.de  
  7. ^ [1] , portrait of Gitti Hentschel
  8. ↑ "taz" loses head of the opinion department , Horizont on June 1, 2015, accessed on August 4, 2017
  9. ^ Ulrich Heisterkamp: Think Tanks of the Parties? A comparative analysis of German political foundations . Springer VS , Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-658-06858-5 , p. 384 f ., doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-658-06858-5 .
  10. ^ Ulrich Heisterkamp: Think Tanks of the Parties? A comparative analysis of German political foundations . Springer VS , Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-658-06858-5 , p. 385 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-658-06858-5 .
  11. ↑ Database: Gender Mainstreaming , Adult Education.at, BMB (Federal Ministry of Education) . Status: 2014, accessed on August 6, 2017
  12. ↑ Gertraude Krell , Renate Ortlieb, Barbara Sieben (eds.): Equal opportunities through personnel policy . 6th revised edition, Gabler Verlag, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-8349-2979-2 , introduction, pp. 146–151
  13. ↑ Juliette Wedl, Annette Bartsch (eds.): Teaching Gender? On the reflective handling of gender in school lessons and in teacher training , Transcript Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-8376-2822-7 , literature p. 546
  14. ↑ Methodological deficiencies of the gender opponents . Review by Sarah Dellmann. Querelles , Vol. 15, No. 2 (2014), online at querelles.net , accessed on August 12, 2017
  15. ↑ Beijing + 20 - women's rights worldwide - finally implement | Gunda Werner Institute . In: Gunda Werner Institute . ( gwi-boell.de [accessed October 24, 2018]).
  16. ↑ Beijing + 20 - women's rights worldwide - finally implement | Gunda Werner Institute . In: Gunda Werner Institute . ( gwi-boell.de [accessed October 24, 2018]).
  17. ↑ Beijing + 20 - women's rights worldwide - finally implement | Gunda Werner Institute . In: Gunda Werner Institute . ( gwi-boell.de [accessed October 24, 2018]).
  18. ^ Regina Frey , Marc Gärtner, Manfred Köhnen, Sebastian Scheele: Gender, Wissenschaftlichkeit und Ideologie. Arguments in the dispute about gender relations . Ed .: Heinrich Böll Foundation (=  writings of the Gunda Werner Institute . Volume 9 ). 2nd Edition. Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86928-113-1 ( Online [PDF; 2.2 MB ; accessed on January 7, 2018]).
  19. ↑ Jan Fleischhauer : Be careful, gender opponents! In: Spiegel Online . July 11, 2013, accessed January 24, 2018 .
  20. ^ Peter Mühlbauer: Sociological self-deception. In: Telepolis . July 16, 2013, accessed January 24, 2018 .
  21. ↑ Kathleen Hildebrand: “Pillory” or everyday life in the gender struggle? In: sueddeutsche.de . July 28, 2017, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed July 31, 2017]).
  22. ^ Antifeminism list of the Böll Foundation Agent * in "temporarily offline" taz online , accessed on August 4, 201
  23. ^ Statement of the board of directors on the final exit from the wiki "Agent * in". Gunda Werner Institute, November 4, 2017, accessed on November 9, 2017 .
  24. ^ Statement by the Heinrich Böll Foundation of August 7, 2017.
  25. ↑ Heide Oestreich: “A highly ideological and distorted discourse” . In: taz . August 18, 2017, p. 3 ( Online [accessed January 22, 2018]).
  26. ↑ Markus Kowalski: Dealing with right-wing populism - Writing about “Demo for Everyone”? Too sensitive for the Böll Foundation. In: queer.de. November 9, 2017, accessed January 16, 2018 .