International Women’s* Day 2023

Today’s International Women's* Day, on 8 March, draws attention to continuing inequalities and discrimination based on gender. Through an increasingly intersectional understanding, connections to discrimination based on gender identity, origin, disability, etc. are also taken into account.

Discrimination Is Manifold and Also Occurs on Small Scales

Many of us are unfortunately very familiar with discrimination and devaluation in everyday life.

• For example, phrases that superficially appear to be compliments but are actually verbal sexual harassments. They are demonstrations of power, act as social ushers, and can trigger anger, fear, and shame in us.
• For example, discriminatory myths that reinforce traditional prejudices and are not always easy to invalidate because they are so-called “killer phrases”.

This makes it all the more important to take a clear stand against sexualised discrimination and to take action against it.

Resources for Counterspeech

There are numerous books and other resources to help combat everyday discrimination and depreciative sayings.

Our Gender & Diversity Officer Anna Steinberger has accumulated them.

Win now!

For Staff Members*

For Students*

• Elli Scambor of Genderwerkstätte Graz offers more tips for counterspeech in a planned podcast in our Campus Talk. 
• The Statute of the St. Pölten UAS also offers guidance on how to deal with discrimination at the UAS.

Women*? You may have noticed that we are using an asterisk for “female” designations in this text. “Women*” shall include the following persons as well: inter, non-binary, trans & agender persons who identify as women.