Promoting Gender Equality in Vienna: MA 57 Women's Department

1. Municipal Department for the Promotion and Coordination of Women‘ s Issues – MA 57 Ricarda Götz

2. City of Vienna Women‘s department • FemCities • Gender Equality Monitoring Report • Campaigns • How does the City of Vienna support work-life balance?

3. CityofVienna Inhabitants: 1.8 million, 52% women City Council: 34% women City Government: 63% women City Administration Staff: 65.000 - 65% women Budget in 2017: € 13.3 billion

4. Milestones: Gender in Vienna 1996 Vienna Equal Opportunities Act 2005 Gender Mainstreaming is established at the Chief Executive Office 2005 Gender Budgeting as integral part of the overall budgeting process 2006 Mayor Michael Häupl signs the European Charter for Equality of Women and Men in Local Life 2008 Laws and regulations have to be checked for conformity with equal opportunities 2010 pilot project: Public procurement must consider gender aspects and promotion of women

5. Goals of the Women‘s Department = Goals of the European Pillar of Social Rights Empowermentofwomenandgirls Combatting gender-specificviolence Overcoming gender-specific stereotypes Equalopportunitiesforwomenandmen in societyand on thelabourmarket Equalpayforwomenandmen MA 57: Sustainedandsecurefundingforwomen-orientedprojectsandorganisations

6. Women‘s Department Head of DepartmentDr.in Marion Gebhart Coordination Office for Public Relations Coordination Office for Administration and Organisation Division Funding Division Helpline for women and legal affairs Division24-hour Women‘s Emergency Hotline DivisionCoordination of Basic Research

7. Division: Basic Research to develop concepts for gender equality within the city and for the public to promote and implement projects in the field of research into women‘s issues and to commission studies to process data for policy makers (statistics, information from NGOs) to assess draft laws and make statements to implement a gender-specific viewpoint as experts within the city administration and in working groups and networks (international) networking and lobbying; FemCities

8. Current Projects • FemCities • Gender Equality Monitoring Report • Sexist Advertisement Watch Group • Network againstAntifeminism • Workshops forgirlsandyoungwomen • Campaigns, Manuals

10. – networking for gender equality Foundation: in 1997 as MILENA network, from 2005: FemCities = (informal) network of administrations in European cities and municipalities that aims to promote women and gender equality and share best practice examples www.femcities.at

11. – networking for gender equality Network partners = specialist departments in European cities and municipalities (in the field of gender equality/equal opportunities/women)

12. – networking for gender equality FemCitiesactivities: • Regular exchangeofinformationandbestpractices • Publications • Annual international FemCitiesconference • Latest in Vienna withthetopic: Refugee Women • Periodicnetworkmeetings on genderequalityissues • Implementation oftheproject „FemCitiesDanube Region“ • Contact: femcities@femcities.at

13. Gender Equality Monitoring Report

14. Gender Equality Monitoring Report Vienna • first published in 2014, then periodically after 3 years • makes the degree of equality between women and men in Vienna measurable and visible • based on (periodically) available empirical data • development of the monitor in a cross-departmental, multi-stage process • Communicating of results: within municipal departments and in public workshops (“Dialogforen”) with different target groups http://www.gleichstellungsmonitor.at/

15. 12 Topics • women and men in Vienna • health • political participation • education and training • paid and unpaid work • leisure time and sports • art and media • income • poverty and social security • housing and public space • environment and mobility • violence Based on previously defined equality objectives, a set of 123 equality indicators was developed in a discursive process. They are arranged into 12 topics Based on existing data Focus 2016: women with migration background

16. Question What is the percentage of children between 3-5 years old who are in child care? 38 % 67 % 93 %

17. Question What is the percentage of children between 3-5 years old who are in child care? 38 % 67 % 93 %

18. Question How much time do women use (on average) for unpaid work (house- and family work) ? 5-6 hours 3-4 hours 1-2 hours

19. Question How much time do women use (on average) for unpaid work (house- and family work) ? 5-6 hours 3-4 hours 1-2 hours Gender equality goal: improved reconciliation of private and professional life, redistribution of unpaid work (section paid and unpaid work)

20. Campaigns, Manuals etc. • Campaigns to increase • the amount of male day care teachers • the share of fathers taking paternal leave • Distributional justice (4 hands, 4 walls) 92% women and 74% men do unpaid work • Manuals for • The promotion of Women in Enterprises • Flexible Work Arrangements • Avoiding Sexual Harassment at the Workplace • Tipps for salary negotiations

21. How does Vienna support work-life balance? • Care facilities • „Free Kindergarten“ • Older people and/or with special needs • Sensitive public planning • High level of Safety • Safe work environment • Implementation of Gender Budgeting

22. Free Child Care/ Kindergarten • The organisation of public day care facilities falls under the jurisdiction of the individual provinces in Austria. The degree of care, hours of operation, and costs can therefore vary accordingly • Childcare in Vienna is free of charge for children up to 6 years of age (20 hours a week without lunch) • Afterschool care fees for pupils are graded according to family income • Children’s daycare centres in Vienna provide a vast offer and family-friendly opening hours (6:30 – 18:00)

23. Free Child Care/ Kindergarten requires Free kindergarten & mandatory kindergarten year before school starts more space more buildings gender-sensitive design more staff more jobs for women making the job more attractive also for men facilitating employment for parents effects on job market training for persons returning to work (Vienna Employment Promotion Fund, WAFF)

24. You have the choice between: • Public Day Care • Private Day Care • Day Care for Employees’ children • Day Care at Universities + • Afternoon Care of School-Age Children

25. Sensitive city/public planning

26. Gender Mainstreaming = a schoolyard of opportunities for all

27. Public lighting – Gender Mainstreaming Example: Resselpark at Karlsplatz

28. Public Transport • 365 EUR for an annual ticket forpublictransport • Subway • Busses • Tram • Inner City Trains • 24 Hours on theWeek End andbefore National Holidays • Clean, safeand on time

29. The City´s Gender Network Municipal Department for the Promotion and Coordination of Women’s Issues Chief Executive Office; Section Gender Mainstreaming Municipal Department for Economic Affairs, Labour and Statistics, expert on Gender Statistics Vienna Employment Promotion Fund Municipal Department for Health Care and Social Welfare Planning, Women‘s Health Group Vienna Business Agency Equal Opportunities Advisors Municipal Departement for Financial Affairs, Division Gender Budgeting Executive Group for Construction and Technology - Expertise for gender-sensitive Planning and Engineering

30. Gender Budgeting

31. How does gender budgeting work in Vienna? • Assessing the relevance for gender equality in the budget draft; as-is-analysis, potential for change 5. Target-performance comparison Comparing objectives and performance as part of the annual final balance 2. Definition of targets – What should / can be achieved? 4. Success indicator Which indicators show whether the objectives have been achieved? 3. Measures, options, projects What can be done to achieve gender equality?

32. municipal department gender specific targets intended projects and actions intended outcome and success factors stakeholders, customers distinguished by sex EU Strategy and Economic Development – calls for Universities of Applied Sciences Universities of Applied Sciences have to become more attractive for women. calls are only accepted if gender equality requirements are met (e.g. gender aspects and affirmative action for women) . Gender experts are part of the jury. Increase the percentage of female students and female teachers 38 % women 62 % men Gender Budgeting data entry form example:

33. How can we all proceed? • Clear political will • lobbying and campaigns, gender trainings • Making gender differences visible: • research and information, gendersenstitivedata • Implementing an equality support structure • Setting up an efficient reporting and controlling system:genderbudgeting, qualitymanagement, gender check forlegislation • Taking action • setting up pilot projects and mainstream results and experience

34. Ricarda Götz, MA Division for the Coordination of Basic Research Deputy coordinator FemCities Coordinator Gender Equality Monitoring Report City of Vienna, Department for the Promotion and Coordination of Women´s Issues Friedrich-Schmidt-Platz 3 1082 Vienna Phone: +43 1 4000 83531 Ricarda.goetz@wien.gv.at