07:09

Ruth Deutschmann

Kufstein

1999-03-26

Sylvia Manning - Baumgartner

Nicolse D ´Incecco

1923

I have to clear your question a clear answer. I became a feminist. I got the wrong the woman already experienced in their own parental family. At that time, to my children's and youth, at least in our family, patriarchy has prevailed. My mother has had to take so much. My mother is so much injustice has been done. My mother - has cried so much tears. And I've seen that it is not just in my parents' family, but also in the other was something like this. That the men women who have simply not taken seriously. That the men women have credited anything. And I'm even in this time, so let's say 1923 - so, since I was 18 years old when I started - I was a young man! - The social democratic party in the local organization in the city of Kufstein organization to stand up for the women. We had a woman at that time inside the party committee, Adele Stürzl she said. She was the first that has left under the scaffold, their lives for our Austria. But it was not easy. It just was not easy. The women have started after the monarchy to move in some mass organizations. So for example in the children's friends, in the chess federation, the Workers 'Esperanto Club, partly from the nature-lovers, the workers' sports. We have seen that women are now. But something has just been lacking throughout the Social Democratic Party, as I had myself then later realize, especially as a student worker. Within the Socialist Party has been done almost nothing or just enough to attract the women politically. It has failed you. Well, they went for strikes with empty shopping baskets. You have accepted there, or because a function in the party. But by and large, nothing happened - until now almost nothing has happened. One must particularly here in Austria - we were once the land of the Austro-Marxism. That would be a separate chapter. We were the land of the Austro-Marxism - in the whole world known and respected, and everything has looked at us and obey us. But even if the Social Democratic Party had a majority in parliament, this party that called itself social democratic, not the equality between men and women even sought. From made-not to mention. Not today! I ask you - not yet! Today it is still the case that women have to fight, we recognize that some of their rights. Today it is still the case that only very rarely a woman - and they as intelligent, they as brave, if it is still so successful? could reach one of the top positions in the Austrian economy. Today there is an extent. Still the man is progressing, although the women are the majority in our country. The majority among voters. But you can count it, how many women sit in parliament. Certainly, as already more than in 1920, but where is the equality? Which is just on paper! Also in the Social Democratic Party you have selected the key, it must be at least 40 percent of the officer posts are filled by women. Search for a place in Austria - a community that sit in the municipal offices in 40 per cent women. You will not find. And the reason is of course to keep looking for that male politicians are not willing to train the women politically. The women to push forward. They live comfortably in their male-dominated society.