Women on Air

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Women on Air is an open women's editorial group on Radio Orange 94.0 in Vienna, in cooperation with the magazine Frauensolidarität , which deals with development issues with a special focus on the work of women.

broadcasts

Women on Air shape the development policy and intercultural program series Global Dialogues . Since 2005 it can be heard every Tuesday from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. on Orange 94.0 and can be checked anytime on the Women-on-Air weblog. Women on Air also moderates the morning program Smart and beautiful wake up , which can be received every 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m.

Topics and priorities

The aim of Women on Air is to present development policy issues with a gender perspective on the radio. The weekly series Global Dialogues reports on, among other things, international women's movements and feminist / queer activism, the globalized world of work is critically discussed and the focus is on women's cultural work. Every year there is a focus topic on which several programs are designed. At the end of the year, an audio CD with short contributions and a booklet on the respective topic will be created.

The main topics of the last few years:

  • 2005: Cultural Creation and Everyday Life of Women in the Global South
  • 2006: Latin America - Caribbean - Europe
  • 2007: North-South multimedia
  • 2008: Literature tells culture: literary women from all over the world, including Eastern Europe, Oceania, Africa, Iran and South Korea were introduced and excerpts from their works were presented.
  • 2009: Broadcasting Human Rights - Human Rights : The UN International Year of Human Rights Learning and the 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) provided the impetus for the main theme of 2009. The CD Best of Broadcasting Human Rights was presented in December 2009 as part of a panel discussion and film presentation ( Natasha ) on the subject of female commuters.
  • 2010: Female Culture Works - Participatory art and cultural work: In the European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion 2010 , the weekly broadcast series focused on the spectrum of participatory art and cultural work by women.
  • 2011: Global worlds of work: labor rights and working conditions of women, especially in the informal economy.
  • 2012: Good Life for All: Relationships between nutrition, agricultural policy, climate change and women's rights.
  • 2013: Migration and Development: Information about the triggers of migration such as hunger, poverty and war, migration and integration policy, trafficking in women, and much more.
  • 2014: Fair economy: As part of the main topic, the radio group Women on Air will deal with theoretical approaches of the feminist economy, the distribution of paid and unpaid work, care work as well as the world of work and labor rights of women in general.
  • 2015: # Beijing + 20 # EYD2015 # womenonair10: In 2015 the radio group celebrates its 10th birthday. In terms of content, they are dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the last UN World Conference on Women in Beijing (China) in 1995. Which demands of the Beijing Platform for Action were implemented in 1995? What are the challenges today? What are women doing around the world to overcome economic, social and cultural challenges?

organization

The Global Dialogues series is organized by the open editorial group Women on Air , which consists of women of different ages and origins. Motivated by the idea of ​​promoting women's presence on the radio, the direct socio-political intervention of women in public space should be strengthened. In order to encourage them, every interested woman can actively participate in this work, take part in the workshops that take place on a regular basis and design programs herself. When realizing a pre-produced broadcast or a live broadcast, there is usually no division of work within the group, so each employee is jointly responsible for interviews, moderation, editing, etc.

Workshops
  • For newcomers: The basics of radio work are taught
  • for the content of the annual changing focus topic
  • on the subject of content and technical program design

The workshops on “Further and advanced training in qualitative radio work and in the new communication technologies ” take place regularly and are free of charge. Women on Air is funded by various institutions. On the one hand, the income is used to finance the workshops and pay the project manager.

Awards

The Global Dialogue series has already won several media awards:

  • 2006: Radio Prize for Adult Education (section: information) for the program Western Sahara - the forgotten conflict .
  • 2007: Radio Prize for Adult Education (Section: Culture) for the program Anacaona - a footnote in Cuban music history .
  • 2008: Radio award for adult education (category: culture) for the program Medea behind bars. A Häfntheater.
  • 2011: Alternative media award from the Nuremberg Media Academy for the program Autonomie or Prostitution. Temporary marriage in Iran. An interview with Sudabeh Mortezai.
  • 2015: Herta Pammer Promotion Prize for Media for the annual CD 2014 on the topic of fair business

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ All broadcasts can also be heard via the live stream http://o94.at/ or in the cable on 92.7.
  2. ↑ The broadcast archive can be found at http://noso.at/
  3. ↑ The annual CDs 2008 and 2009 can be listened to at http://globale-dialoge.o94.at/, where there is also a booklet with accompanying texts
  4. ^ Catholic women's movement | Herta Pammer Prize 2015