The village needs more women
Why are women an important economic factor for regional development in Lausitz? The MDR report "Mehr Frauen braucht das Dorf" (The village needs more women) is dedicated to this question with exciting portraits and insights into the development potential of the region, which was published as part of the ARD theme week "Stadt.Land.Wandel" (City.Country.Change).
In September, the "F wie Kraft" network received a request from MDR Wissen to be part of a contribution to the ARD theme week "Stadt.Land.Wandel". Specifically, a women's get-together in Lusatia was to be accompanied by the media. And whether the committed women were up for it! The Lusatian women's regulars' table met for the first time in person on October 6 at the KOLABORacja premises in Görlitz. Also present: Dr. Julia Gabler and Leonie Liemich from the HSZG, HSZG graduate Franziska Stölzel, F wie Kraft editor Marie Melzer and the MDR film crew.
In November, the report was finished and the ARD theme week "Stadt.Land.Wandel" went on air. MDR WISSEN, the science editorial department of MDR, published five films in the ARD media library that deal with the topic of "rural areas" in Central Germany from different perspectives and with different challenges. In addition to the role of women in rural areas, the films also dealt with mobility in rural areas, rural supply and village stores, agriculture and energy production / power generation.
The film "The village needs more women" impressively shows that women are an important economic factor for regional development in Lausitz. As the initiator of the "F wie Kraft" platform, Dr. Julia Gabler is actively involved in the networking and visibility of women in and from Lausitz:
Women aren’t just an important economic force when they drink local beer; they also inspire people to stay here because they want to drive sustainable structural development, actively build networks, don’t sweep criticism under the rug, and serve as advocates and ambassadors for regional challenges … in their villages, in the cities, across the country, and in the parliaments—yes, all the way to the EU!” Dr. Julia Gabler, Adjunct Professor in the Master's degree programme in management of social change
”Watch"The village needs more women" in the ARD media library
Status paper - Women as an economic factor in Lausitz, commissioned by ZWL - Zunkunftswerkstatt Lausitz (PDF, 570KB)
Since 2016, “F wie Kraft” has been active in Upper Lusatia, building networks, empowering, supporting, initiating, and conducting research.
The network has already gone through many project phases—exploring opportunities for retention and formulating findings, developing and implementing formats, and submitting and processing project proposals. All with the goal of bringing together as diverse a group of women as possible from the fields of politics, regional development, public administration, and the sociocultural sector.
In 2018, “F wie Kraft” was financially supported by funds from the Free State under the Demography Guideline and the regional skilled-worker alliance, and institutionally supported by the Equal Opportunities Officer of the Görlitz district as well as the TRAWOS Institute at the Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences. Funding ends in 2019—but the project does not.
If you’d like to know what’s going on with these powerful women from Lusatia, check out the good website: https://www.fwiekraft.de/
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