Turnaround Empowerment & Focus on gender equality

Since summer 2023, we at the Club of Rome – Austrian Chapter have been working on an Austria-wide campaign to implement a positive vision of the necessary transformation or, as written in the “Earth4All” report, a “Giant Leap” in Austria.

If women have better access to education, economic opportunities, decent jobs and all the life chances that go with them, this will lead to healthier, stronger and more resilient societies. It is at this point that the development trajectory of humanity and our planet in our century will be decided.

Earth4All (2022)

Vision:

We live in a just and inclusive society in which cooperation and gender equality are at the forefront at all levels of society, politics, business and religion. Everyone has the same opportunities when the state and society create the necessary structures. Transparency and opportunities for participation enable everyone to live in a society based on solidarity and to help shape it. Influence and creative power as well as paid and unpaid (care) work are distributed fairly. Everyone participates in a high-quality, lifelong and inclusive education system, which increases life chances and quality of life. We are aware that we are part of a larger global whole. We support the global transformation process through our way of life and our economic activities. Conflicts are resolved without violence. Gender stereotypes are dissolved and marginalization and discrimination are actively counteracted.

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Zoe Lefkofridi, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg: “The inclusion of women in political decision-making has an extremely positive effect and leads to more environmental protection, more stringent
climate policy and more concrete, ambitious results.”

Levers and goals

Call to action: Women and others disadvantaged by current systems gain equal access to education, economic and social rights, power and wealth by 2030 – immediately stabilizing the world’s population and unleashing the potential of all.

Goal: Full gender equality in terms of representation, rights, resources and power in law and employment.

This empowerment turnaround is based on three fundamental levers that enable continuous development towards a new economic paradigm:

• Participation: transparency, religion, marginalized groups
• Equality: Care work, managers, medical care, livelihood security
• Lifelong education for all: equal opportunities

Women in leadership positions:

On this page, we document relevant events and workshops, publish interviews and contributions by qualified authors and will soon also present what we as the Club of Rome/Earth4All see as the consequences of this for Austria. We see all of this as contributions to a process that we believe should be initiated in Austria in the sense of a “turnaround in empowerment”.

Below you will find information on

Events

Resources

Website Posts

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