International women's day 2019 : gender justice in the Era of identity politics

a Boy or a girl, don't come to you. Allegedly, Duchess Meghan and Prince Harry, the British Royal children of the king, are expecting a child, your offspring, so far as the "Baby Sussex", "to grow up without gender stereotypes". So much want to have the US magazine "Vanity Fair" by friends of the Pregnant woman. Meghan used the word "fluid", i.e., of fluid gender boundaries spoken. Toy cars and doll house would then join with light blue or Pink, the traditional procedure would be relaxed.

it is Apparently discarded in the Palace of the Ballast of the past, at least in the case of the merger, a constitutional monarchy of the West, with a Person of color from California. Also on the official forms of democratic constitutional States identity is in addition to "woman" and "man" politically, a third gender, or the category "divers". At the same time, against the flow of the neotraditional extremism swells, wants to hold on to under the sign, such as "Nation" and "homeland" to the old symbol systems.

Whether Annegret Kramp cart Builder, drives verrutschter carnival joke about the third gender in this counter-flow, seems to be still unclear. Glass clear, however, is legal return steps, such as in Russia, where 2017 male violence against women is a piece of has been decriminalized. No broken bones, strokes caused "only" dents or bruises, and threaten men now have two weeks of detention instead of, as previously, for two years. However, Saudi-Arabia for celebrating that women are allowed to drive since the 2018 car. And as Donald Trump of Brazil is cheered the new President for his sexism, when he exclaims: "I see no reason for feminism!"

Significantly friction equal pay between the currents, evidence for an ideological maze of the present, in which the classical goals of emancipation outdated can act the Same rights. In Germany, this year is reminiscent of 1919, when women for the first Time and being chosen could be a hundred years ago. One of the 37 women among the 423 deputies in the Weimar Parliament was Helene Weber, Catholic thrown social politician, 1933 by the national socialists from office. In 1949, Weber belonged to, in addition to three women from the SPD and 61 men to those who drafted the basic law, which is an Initiative of the social Democrat Elisabeth Selbert the sentence: "men and women are equal". Selbert, a lawyer, a profession that was forbidden to women, as of December 1934; the Nazis rejected the "break-in at the altgeheiligten principle of masculinity of the state".

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In the first Bonn Bundestag in 1949, 28 women, and Helene Weber sat, now Deputy in the CDU, told the 410 men and of the Republic: "The pure men of state, is the Ruin of peoples!" In 1909, Weber had taken the state examination for the teaching profession – unusual, because professors in refused often until the 1920s, to consider women. Also universities were "pure men States," the experienced weavers. In schools under the married women were allowed to teach a long time, but without it, the teacher was inside celibacy. Marriage meant the immediate loss of occupational pension claim. The celibacy clause was, with a short interruption from 1919 to 1923, and 1951.

Also today, the deputies in the Bundestag are up to 70 percent of men

Today, 70 percent of the deputies in the Bundestag are still male, 490 of 709. The proportion of women went with the last elections, the AfD back provided - for the first time in a long Time. He fell around six percent - and, although since 2005 a woman is Chancellor, and equality is on the Agenda worldwide. The current friction is also in the midst of our society.

The tug-of-war and gender justice are the two Ends of the rope new, loud ones, and on all continents. At the reactionary end of the Neo-tug-of-traditionalists to the supposedly ideal Yesterday. At the critical end of the for diversity Dedicated to pull in a barely defined elsewhere. Genuine political content is lost in this culture war. At the right end of the rope hardens, on the left it frayed. And the social floor, where the tussle going on, trembles, is a slippery slope with economic and social turmoil, thanks to the globalization and digitization of the extremely "fluid" become the world economy.

On the 20. February 2019, the Greens were the brave of the request to the Bundestag, "feminist foreign policy consistently", because populism threatens to worsen around the world, "the situation of women." In fact, the civil society organisations, the gender equality on the flags, an acceptable quota of women do not come close to once, the expert says Burkhard Gnärig. On 8. March, begins its campaign a "Fair Share" that wants to move NGOs to fulfil one of the UN-sustainability goals: "gender equality and empowerment of women and girls by the year 2030". In most international organisations, 70 per cent of the employees were female, explains Gnärig, "but 70 percent of the leadership is male", such as the International Red cross. Women of the NGO giants, including Oxfam, are only a few.

The Central question of women's rights, the gap in opportunities, power, and income, especially at higher education institutions in the Background. There, in the future of democratic societies, workshops is currently being researched in the Western world in their colonial and hegemonic traces of the enlightenment, the secularism, and universal human rights, to democracy itself. Even the use of counter-veiling commandments, or female genital mutilation is often seen as "Western arrogance". Parallel for fluid gender categories it is argued that without democracy, without a chance, is one of the glaring contradictions, which destroys the ideological fog.

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the fragmentation is the effect. The home group is fighting, in Hungary and Poland, Turkey and the Philippines, for backward-looking utopias, "Retrotopia", as the sociologist Bauman, Zygmunt called it. The Film of history backwards until the woman is again a woman, the man again man. Who wants to deal with such Trends with the politics of identity, penetrates today, perhaps in Buckingham Palace, but not to Saudi Arabia. Women's rights, universal human rights can only flourish in democratic legal States a reality. The woman enemy Combat policy needs, as in the times of Helene Weber, and, more than ever, a clear commitment to democracy.