Ricarda Lang: “Women have to be at the table because it makes the solutions better”

Last weekend, over 100 speakers spoke to interested listeners in the capital for eight hours. Everywhere you looked, women. Women who have rank and name and those who want to create one for themselves. Female Future Force Day paved the way. No matter whether you are a student in your first semester or a more mature and successful entrepreneur. Here everyone spoke to everyone – with success.

One of many female business questions was: “But how do I do all this when I’m a mother?”, a spontaneous answer was found by the successful entrepreneur and dentist Dr. Mariana Mintcheva in a master class she led: “Being a mother doesn’t mean sitting next to your child 24 hours a day.” The entrepreneur appealed to the women present to organize their time more specifically and to use time more effectively both with children and with business topics.

Regardless of whether you have children or not, women are still taken less seriously than men in the business world. Especially in leadership positions. This is also shown by a study by Martin Abel. Women also tend to underestimate themselves more often than men. These are just a few reasons why days like these are important for an equal future. Building a strong business network can help if you want to become self-employed, want to expand your company or are simply looking for inspiration and exchange. This was possible at various panel talks or master classes at the Female Future Force Day.

Together with Dr. Mintcheva, the master class participants then completed an exercise to manifest their desires: “Think of one thing you are grateful for,” was the first task. “Close your eyes, breathe in and out. Now think of one thing that adds value to others about you, one thing that other people think of when they think of you.” She advised the ladies in attendance to remind themselves daily of what they are grateful for in their lives. They should also think about the goals they pursue in the individual areas of life: “This is how you will achieve what you want.” A woman in the audience began to cry. Mintcheva immediately comforted her. During the exercise, the woman realized that she was on the right path in her life, and that touched her.

The speakers left room for questions, even celebrities such as actress Wolke Hegenbarth, psychologist Stefanie Stahl and entrepreneur Diana zur Löwen mingled with the people in the large hall and were approachable and approachable for networking. The event was women-friendly, offered childcare and a changing and nursing area. The toilets were gender neutral “The Future Is Equal” was written in large letters on the walls. And in this place it wasn’t just an empty phrase.

Female empowerment is when women in the audience give each other advice together with the speakers

Many important sentences were spoken at the Female conference in Berlin, but one in particular stuck with you. “When is the best time to start a company?” was one of the questions in a master class. Another woman in the audience responded: “Start before you’re ready! Your mind will always say you’re not ready.”

Female politicians were also among the guests at the Female Future Force Day. The “Green Party” leader Ricarda Lang said at a panel talk that climate protection and politics also urgently need to become more female: “Men negotiate with men about global climate policy. Women have to be at the table because it makes the solutions better.” was the politician’s credo.

But the women didn’t just treat each other with kid gloves. In a talk with Ricarda Lang, the influencer Louisa Dellert had a somewhat tougher exchange with her. She says she has given up interviewing politicians because she no longer wants to hear the same old phrases. “There’s just not enough happening in your government…” she said to Ricarda Lang, saying she was tired and desolate. “What else should we tell you and put in to make it work? Scientists and experts have already commented,” said Dellert. Lang admitted that what’s gone is gone in climate protection and that you have to work with what you have. She herself sees the gap in climate policy.

And that, too, is female leadership, says Lang: “Showing weakness, making yourself vulnerable” is also part of politics. “They’re not machines sitting there.”

But Lang is also proud of the solutions that were found. An increase in the truck toll will bring in an additional two billion euros, which will flow into the expansion of the German railway system. “So far, road, road and rail, rail have been financed. We are breaking through that. Now, in this case, road is financing rail.” Lang also sees a feminist aspect in this solution, since “many women with children rely on public transport.”

It’s all in the mix. Entrepreneurs, politicians, showbiz greats, influencers and all other participants came together. The number of people present hardly decreased towards the end of the event, although the day’s input was diverse. This shows how much interest there is in the topic of female empowerment and female networking in Germany. The solidarity and feminist solidarity from young to old, from rich and prominent to normal participants, seems to have been successful.

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