SPÖ leader Pamela Rendi-Wagner presented a five-point package for her party – with today’s Women’s Day, the SPÖ is also launching its “We are the future” campaign. Full transparency is required for wages and assets in view of a gender-specific wage gap of 13 percent. Other SP demands include a focus on health care and gender medicine, as well as a labor market package with the expansion of women’s work foundations and the well-known demand for an increase in unemployment benefits to 70 percent. Furthermore, the SPÖ women want a mandatory paternity leave.
“Rigid” parental leave models
FPÖ women’s spokeswoman Rosa Ecker demanded that Women’s Minister Susanne Raab (VP) make more efforts to ensure equal pay for equal work, typical women’s jobs must be upgraded. In addition, care reform is finally needed. The FPÖ women also called for increased measures against violence against women.
The Neos, on the other hand, would like reforms of parental leave and childcare for Women’s Day. Because “rigid, conservative parental leave models and a lack of childcare, especially in rural areas” destroy opportunities for women and would slow down progress, according to Neos women’s spokeswoman Henrike Brandstötter.
The coalition parties did not remain idle either: the ÖVP announced that it wanted to focus primarily on the issue of care, because two thirds of the 950,000 caring relatives were female. The Greens are convinced that they have achieved improvements for women through their participation in government, for example with the increase in the women’s budget by 81 percent and the violence protection package.
Source: Nachrichten
