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Gender and Globalization
Gender democracy is one of the Heinrich Böll Foundation’s main tenets. Gender democracy means democratic equality for women and men. To achieve this traditional equal opportunities policy is being supplemented with cross-gender co-operation, though this does not exclude equal opportunities measures such as a quota for women.

Within the Heinrich Böll Foundation, gender democracy is a joint task, i.e. gender democracy is part of all our activities, including globalization. There is no such thing as a textbook for gender democracy; instead it is a work-in-progress to change our organisation as well as society as a whole. Concepts for gender democracy have to be reworked and relived again and again, always depending on the concrete social and cultural environment.

Femme Globale - Gender Perspectives in the 21st Century
Ten years after the World Women’s Conference in Beijing, more than 1,000 participants discuss perspectives for a globalized gender-policy – at the International Conference “Femme Globale”. more

Summer School: Engendering Economic Policies in a Globalising World
The Summer School 2005 of Heinrich-Böll-Foundation will focus on the WTO-Agreement on Agriculture (AoA), on the progressive liberalisation in the agricultural sector and the globalisation of free trade in food. more