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The paint is from? - Then please do not to Dusseldorf

photo. Go A. Knop

"If women do not like to paint their fingernails, to the disco or to the hairdresser, then they are in Essen and Dusseldorf wrong. "

The statistics professor Walter Kramer says of the TU Dortmund. The federal government but says journalists who is wrong here, this is Mr. Kramer - and with it a public service broadcaster, has given this strange statistical study on women-friendly cities in order.

The moderator of the WDR local time Ruhr acts in the announcement of the contribution a bit strange:

"It's very interesting what was being investigated, what is obviously important to score with women. "Then follows

WDR best cross-promotion. The radio colleagues in 1Live Sector Report can evaluate the statistics, what do women supposedly: hairdressers, boutiques, nail salons, health food stores - and men.

woman could now take with humor, especially as Professor Kramer in the article a bit like Horst Schlämmer acts. And even funnier it gets, when the woman is white, so the man has made the author a name: the "Encyclopedia of the popular errors" and the work ". So you lie with statistics " He is the Scientific Council of the Society for the Scientific Investigation of para-science, the among other things, against "pseudo-scientific claims" blocked.

annoying only go on it that for so what our license fees. And so the journalists' federation an open letter to the WDR wrote:

Open Letter

Bonn, 24 January 2011

love Monika Piel,

"We simply use all the cliches that there are only so, "said Prof. Walter Krämer the article" Woman City - Food No. 3 "in the local time on Tuesday, 18 January. And well told, what criteria he has calculated as a statistician woman-friendly city of NRW: According to the number of shoe and jewelry shops, nail salons, flower shops, discos, and by the surplus of men that is. "Women who paint their nails or do not like buying shoes, which are then incorrectly in Essen and Dusseldorf," said Kramer.

extent that would just be annoying and stupid - if not as co-author of the study at the TU Dortmund der WDR genannt wird, konkret: WDR 1Live. Das hat uns nun doch überrascht: So etwas initiiert der WDR, die erste Landesrundfunkanstalt, die Frauenförderplan und Gleichstellung realisiert hat? Die Anstalt, die sich für eine geschlechtergerechte Sprache einsetzt und natürlich für Qualitätsjournalismus? Die Anstalt, für die auch viele unserer Mitglieder arbeiten, gibt Gebührengelder aus für solchen Unsinn?

Vielleicht war die Kooperation mit der TU Dortmund sogar kostenfrei (was wir sehr hoffen) – aber die Redaktion, Moderation und Berichterstattung quer durch die WDR-Programme („Crosspromotion“ in WDR2, diverse Lokalzeiten etc.) war es sicher nicht. Dazu kommt, dass a well-laden stereotypes comparable study on the "male-friendly city in North Rhine-Westphalia was created in November: Great! Since you have served both sexes cliche. (May we suggest how the criteria looked for the men: the number of football clubs and Mucki stalls per city)

Hardly worth mentioning that in the 2'21-report in the local time to it all, even a group of women was interviewed, the just practice, "a play about the menopause" - and therefore, "experts in women's issues" were. The can look forward then to the camera, that there are taxi drivers, which the ladies to the front door . Accompany

Please ensure that is spent in your house no more cents for such a silly, unreflective use of stereotypes. Such reports damage the image of public service broadcasting. We know

, the WDR does it better!

If you want to hang up once a clinical trial: What about criteria such as equal pay for equal work, "the scope and availability of child care," "number of women in leadership positions" for the woman-friendly city in North Rhine-Westphalia? And see if Prof. Walter Krämer not create such a study may then be determined in NRW many who like to take: eg Prof. Ilse Lenz, see more frauenforschung.nrw.de www.netzwerk. By the way: This is also true for the new edition of the men study.

looking forward to both the - with best wishes - represented

your journalists fret

by the board members:
Eva Kohl Rusch, president of the Journalist Federation of Women
Rosemarie bodice, vice chairman of the journalists Federal
Hilde Weeg
Cornelia Benninghoven
Wibke Gerking
Petra Alexandra Buhl