Marcel Fratzscher (Präsident des DIW Berlin), Claudia Kemfert (Leiterin der Abteilung Energie, Verkehr, Umwelt), Karsten Neuhoff (Leiter der Abteilung Klimapolitik) und mehrere andere Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler aus dem DIW Berlin gehören zu den über 700 Forscherinnen und Forscher, die in einer deutschsprachigen Erklärung ihr Verständnis für die berechtigten Sorgen der weltweit für den Schutz des Planeten demonstrierenden Schülerinnen und Schüler („Fridays for Future“) kundtun.
Diese Stellungnahme legt wissenschaftlich begründet dar, dass die derzeitigen Maßnahmen zum Klima-, Arten-, Meeres- und Bodenschutz bei weitem nicht ausreichen. Um die international vereinbarten Ziele zu erreichen, muss wesentlich schneller gehandelt und müssen dringend viel wirksamere Maßnahmen ergriffen werden. „In allen deutschsprachigen Ländern werden beim Umbau der Bereiche Energie, Ernährung, Landwirtschaft, Ressourcennutzung und Mobilität die notwendige Größenordnung und Geschwindigkeit nicht erreicht“, so der Text.
An der Erklärung, die Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler aus Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz unterzeichnet haben, haben Kolleginnen und Kollegen u.a. des Potsdam-Instituts für Klimafolgenforschung, der HU Berlin, der ETH Zürich und der Universität Bern gearbeitet, darunter auch Mitautorinnen und Mitautoren von IPCC-Berichten. Ähnliche wissenschaftliche Stellungnahmen wurden bereits in anderen Ländern veröffentlicht.
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“Progress has been made thanks to these women who have never shut up, who will never shut up,” said the President of Estonia, Kersti Kaljulaid, speaking to a roundtable of 18 female diplomats at IPI. More than one year into the Secretary-General’s gender parity strategy, the ratio of female to male diplomats at the United Nations has increased. But while the number of women in multilateral leadership positions is improving, serious barriers to their full participation in this arena remain.
Progress towards gender equality and these remaining barriers were the focus of a March 11th IPI event, co-hosted with the Permanent Mission of Estonia to the UN, and entitled “Women in Diplomacy: Creating Transformative Change.”
To introduce the discussion, President Kaljulaid recalled that 15 years ago, 20 percent of Estonian heads of mission were women. This number has now increased to 40 percent. In spite of the obstacles to equality, she insisted, “we can never let go” in the battle for gender equality. She also noted that freedom of the press had allowed women to actively and publicly demand equality, in turn propelling more Estonian women into politics and high-level posts.
María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, the President of the UN General Assembly, recalled the enormous changes she had witnessed in her career. When she was appointed minister of foreign affairs of Ecuador, she said that out of 85 ambassadors, there were only three women. These women often were not permitted on missions, because they had families, she explained. The government, in response, passed ministerial codes that allowed for the promotion of women diplomats into higher positions within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, taking action to eliminate references to the physical appearance or marital status of applicants, and basing selection process exclusively on professional and academic profile.
“It is important that everything is put into writing so it stays part of cultural and institutional architecture,” she said, reflecting on a time when women with sufficient experience and training were not given opportunity because they were expected to take care of children. In 2018, the Foreign Ministry presented a written “Policy for Gender Equality” to promote gender equity in diplomacy.
Ms. Espinosa Garcés addressed a number of ways in which women are currently represented in the multilateral community. She highlighted the disparity among key figures, including that out of 21 vice presidents of the General Assembly, only one is female, and one out of six chairs of committees is a woman. She shared some of the ways she strives for gender equality in her own work, including by objecting when offered a place on panels solely made up of men, and by making sure that 60% of the UN facilitators she appoints are female.
“It’s not only about optics and form and numbers, it is about making a difference in the way we exercise leadership,” she said. “We have a lot to do to break stereotypes to share the message” that women’s participation makes a positive difference in decision-making.
Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed urged the women at the table to continue sharing their personal experiences. Drawing insights from their own careers, she said, could help support younger generations in achieving more effective solutions. “Things are changing,” she continued, “the intergenerational transition is difficult.” Exchanging strategies for catalyzing change within networks of women leaders could, she indicated, “give the next generation the tools to deal with it.”
As international civil servants, women in diplomacy have a “huge job to do from the inside out” to achieve gender parity in the workplace, said Ambassador Mohammed. And to do it, “We need to have women in decision-making roles in the Secretariat.” It is also “incredibly important that men are seen as partners and collaborators” in this process, she said. She concluded, “I think women in positions of leadership will help us get much further than we’ve ever been.”
IPI Senior Fellow Sarah Taylor moderated.
We are happy to announce Dennis Gaus and Jana Hamdan (both GC class 2017) as the new GC Student Representatives in 2019!
We thank Felicitas and Daniel for their excellent work last year and look forward to a continued great collaboration with the new representatives.
The two Student Representatives serve as spokespersons for the doctoral students. They facilitate communication between the GC staff and the students, as well as organize student events.
Every doctoral student is entitled to nominate and vote for two candidates, with elections held once a year.
Wednesday, March 13, 6:15pm EST
Film Screening: Women, War, and Peace II
This event will focus on two of the four films that make up the Women, War & Peace II PBS documentary film series: Wave Goodbye to Dinosaurs and A Journey of a Thousand Miles.
Thursday, March 14, 1:15pm EST
Feminist Leadership at the UN
This event will amplify perspectives on progress as well as remaining challenges to removing barriers to gender equality and feminist leadership at national, regional and global levels.
Wednesday, March 20, 1:150m EST
Mobilizing Male Allies for Women, Peace and Security
The Male Allies for Women, Peace and Security initiative will be launched in an event during the month of CSW.
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DIW-Präsident Marcel Fratzscher äußert sich zu den heutigen Änkündigungen der Europäischen Zentralbank:
Die EZB und ihr Präsident Draghi haben heute ein überraschend klares Warnsignal gesendet: Die Wirtschaft des Euroraums schwächt sich merklich ab, die Risiken werden größer. Folglich macht die EZB die Geldpolitik nochmals expansiver. Ich halte diese Entscheidung für klug und notwendig, um die drohende wirtschaftliche Abkühlung etwas abmildern zu können. Die Bekanntgabe eines neuen Kreditprogramms (TLTRO-III) kommt früher und ist deutlich expansiver als erwartet. Ich erwarte, dass sich die EZB nur bei einer weiteren wirtschaftlichen Abkühlung durch eine sogenannte "forward guidance" auf einen Zinspfad festlegt. Die Geldpolitik der EZB wird deutlich länger expansiv bleiben müssen, als dies in der deutschen Öffentlichkeit noch immer wahrgenommen wird. Ich sehe einen Zinsanstieg frühestens Ende 2020. Meine größte Sorge ist die noch immer unzureichende Verankerung der Inflationserwartungen, sodass die Preisstabilität wohl frühestens Ende 2020 wieder erreicht wird.Zusammen mit seinen Co-AutorInnen Marina Hagen and Reinhard Schunck hat Marco Giesselmann den Advances in Life Course Research Young Scholar Award für den Aufsatz “Motherhood and mental well-being in Germany: Linking a longitudinal life course design and the gender perspective on motherhood” erhalten.
Der Gewinneraufsatz ist frei erhältlich!
On Thursday, March 14th IPI together with the International Center for the Research on Women, the Feminist U.N Campaign and Save The Children and are cohosting a policy forum to discuss Feminist Leadership at the UN.
Remarks will begin at 10:15am PST / 1:15pm EST
Secretary-General António Guterres took office in January 2017 amid unprecedented public and member state demand for feminist leadership of the United Nations. Member states coalesced in platforms advocating for such shifts in leadership, and the Feminist UN Campaign emerged from that political moment. Now, two years into the SG’s term, the 63rd Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) presents an ideal background for member states, civil society and the Executive Office of the Secretary-General to be in conversation about the current state of feminist leadership and progress advancing gender equality at the UN.
The Women, Peace and Security lens provides a useful case study for measuring progress in this regard. Despite two decades of women, peace and security policy development and commitments, women’s participation at “all levels of decision-making” lags due to structural barriers, lack of access to political arenas, and even threats to women who attempt to participate in these processes. In efforts to build and sustain peace, there remains widespread neglect of local-level women peace builders’ expertise, and formal peacemaking efforts continue to be resistant to women’s meaningful participation and rights implementation. However, member states and the UN have taken steps to address barriers to women’s leadership, such as in highlighting national-level feminist policies and launching a UN-wide gender parity strategy. The election of a new Secretary-General of the United Nations in 2016 provided an important opportunity to ensure that the United Nations implements an agenda that puts gender equality and women’s rights at the heart of everything it does.
This event will amplify perspectives on progress as well as remaining challenges to removing barriers to gender equality and feminist leadership at national, regional and global levels, including discussion with experts from member states, UN leadership, and civil society.
Opening remarks:
Dr. Adam Lupel, Vice President, International Peace Institute
Speakers:
Ms. Nahla Valji, Senior Gender Adviser, Executive Office of the Secretary-General
Ms. Lyric Thompson, Feminist UN Campaign Coordinator
Ms. Nora O’Connell, Associate Vice President, Public Policy and Advocacy, Save The Children
Member state Representative (TBC)
Moderator:
Dr. Sarah Taylor, Senior Fellow, International Peace Institute
On Wednesday, March 13th, IPI together with Peace is Loud are cohosting a screening of scenes from the PBS documentary film series “Women, War and Peace II.”
Remarks will begin at 3:15pm PST / 6:15pm EST
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This event will focus on two of the four films that make up the Women, War & Peace II series: Wave Goodbye to Dinosaurs and A Journey of a Thousand Miles.
Wave Goodbye to Dinosaurs places a spotlight on the all-female political party, comprised of both Catholic and Protestant women, in Northern Ireland, who earned a seat at the negotiating table for the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. Their focus on human rights, equality, and inclusion shaped the historic peace deal, which put an end to years of violent conflict and established sustainable peace.
In A Journey of a Thousand Miles, an all-female Bangladeshi peacekeeping contingent charts a path forward to international peace and security through the UN peacekeeping mission to Haiti. The film shines a light on stereotypes shattered by the Bangladeshi police unit through their contributions to building peace in a country affected by poverty and natural disaster.
Following the screening, there will be a moderated discussion featuring filmmakers and eminent women peacemakers.
Opening Remarks:
Dr. Adam Lupel, Vice President, International Peace Institute
Speakers:
Ms. Monica McWilliams, Co-Founder, Northern Ireland Women’s Coalition; Negotiator, Good Friday Agreement
Ms. Eimhear O’Neill, Documentary Film Director, Wave Goodbye to Dinosaurs
Ms. Geeta Gandbhir, Documentary Film Director, A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers
Ms. Nahla Valji, Senior Gender Advisor in the Executive Office in the Secretary-General of the United Nations
Moderator:
Dr. Sarah Taylor, Senior Fellow, International Peace Institute
DIW-Studie nimmt Lohnlücke in einzelnen Berufen unter die Lupe – In Berufen, in denen lange Arbeitszeiten einen hohen Stellenwert haben und überproportional entlohnt werden, sind Gender Pay Gaps größer – Weitere Studie widmet sich dem Gender Care Gap: Frauen erledigen immer noch Großteil der Hausarbeit und Kinderbetreuung
Frau Zucco, wie groß ist die Verdienstlücke zwischen Männern und Frauen, also der so genannte Gender Pay Gap, in Deutschland?
Beim sogenannten Gender Pay Gap unterscheiden wir den bereinigten und den unbereinigten Gender Pay Gap. Der unbereinigte Gender Pay Gap liegt momentan in Deutschland bei 21 Prozent. Der bereinigte Gender Pay Gap, der auch unterschiedliche Berufserfahrungen oder Qualifikationen berücksichtigt, liegt bei sechs Prozent. [...]