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FemCities conference on the European Charter for Equality

The network FemCities organized together with the City of Graz and the City of Vienna a conference on the implementation of the European Charter for Equality of women and men in local life. The conference gathered round 40 participants from Austria, Germany, Serbia, Croatia and Sweden.

The conference offered an opportunity for participants to get a further insight in how the City of Vienna, Graz, Frankfurt and Zagreb organizes their local policies to advance gender equality.

Several issues were discussed among the participants, such as Gender Equality versus Diversity and recent trends of incorporating these two areas into one.

The way of organizing gender equality work within municipalities was also discussed and the impact of the operational management both on the internal and external work and challenges this might cause for the implementation of gender mainstreaming.

FemCities is a European network of cities working to promote gender equality. It was previously called Milena and was originally cooperating with cities in Central Europe, especially in Austria, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Today the network has expanded its activities and organize annual conferences on different thematic related to gender equality in local life.

For more information about FemCities please visit link.

In 2012 FemCities held a conference on the topic of “Ending gender stereotyping and sexist portrayals in advertising”, click here for more information and to access the conference publication.

In 2011 the topic for the conference 2011 was “Migrant women in European cities and municipalties”, click here for more information and to access the conference publication.