How did women live 5.000 years ago – were there rich women, too?
A museum for prehistory in a village at the Traisen (a tributary of the river Danube in Lower Austria, an hour’s drive from Vienna) has taken up this question and built an interesting exhibition about women in the Bronze Age.
Barbara Velik-Frank has written a book with this interesting title about the position of women in the Catholic Church.
Unknown heroines!
Empresses, women warriors and inventors – the well known French comic book designer Pénélope Bagieu has published a beautiful book full of reminders for forgotten women. Read more
Prior to the occasion of the European Day on 9 of May the European project DANUBE WOMEN CITY GUIDE was launched in Vienna, laying the foundation for more visibility of women in history and present time in the Danube Region.
To make women’s achievements along the river Danube more visible, also means to empower girls and young women to design and live their own life according their interests and needs – without being restricted from traditional gender roles, the project partners agree.
After our adventure in Bratislava Petra UNGER gave us a fantastic tour on the feminist movements in Vienna. On half way it started to rain, but nobody even cared as it was so exciting to hear the unknown stories…