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Europe | 27.02.2019 Yes to the quota! Why all European parliaments need a 50 per cent quota for women and an in-house nursery
Europe | 09.10.2018 Ode to Joy What the first female party leader Joy Pamela Rendi-Wagner intends to do with the Austrian Social Democrats
Europe | 28.09.2018 A missed opportunity The utopian demands of the feminist citizens’ initiative in Austria make it far too easy for its critics
Europe | 04.06.2018 Orban in Lederhosen Austria’s EU presidency is pandering to Europe’s most chauvinistic tendencies
Women in politics | 15.02.2018 Grandmother, witch… or a politician getting on with the job? Why do we still fall back on tired tropes to describe women in power?
Europe | 18.10.2017 Copycat Kurz Austria’s Conservative leader Sebastian Kurz aped the far-right – and won the election
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