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"Rather fight, because holiday"

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is 100 years old, the International Women's Day on this year's 8th March. Called by the socialist women's movement to life, was here at first only the women's suffrage issue. On the significance of this day, its history and current situation of women, Dr. Kerstin Wolff from the archives of the German women's movement in Kassel in an interview today with hr2 and expressed it boldly intelligent thought. But that still does not - as stipulated in the Basic Law - Women and men have equal rights, Wolff makes social structures responsible. Which were, according to the historian, particularly durable. Was not very unfortunately, that these structures are essentially been made by men. Wolff avoids aware, however, the opposite sex in this regard be presented as evil. They also pointed out that there were also among the losers in this system men and women winners of the same. Need us have a day of gender? I think not. For the discrimination of women to men has past and present. The starting point for change is right here. And equality - or rather "equal obligation" as Wolff calls it - of women and men can do good! This change is then also the structures ...