A network of female labor market experts focusing on women's employment and equal opportunities in the workplace in Bremen (and Bremerhaven). The working group connects existing structures, facilitates professional exchange and training, and initiates collaborations.

For more than 25 years, the working group has been lobbying for girls and women in education and training, both within and outside the labor market, and in the business world. Its central demands are equality, equal participation and equal opportunities for women in the workplace, and a right to secure employment.
 

Meeting location:
Central Office for the Realization of Equal Rights for Women

Meetings are held
8 times per year, usually on the first Friday of the month.

Participation requirements:
Experts from labor market policy theory and practice, such as further education and employment providers, women's counselling centers, mothers' centers and labor market policy actors, such as the officers for equal opportunities.

working level
, Bremen

Cooperation with other working groups and networks
: Network for the labor market integration of women with refugee and migration backgrounds, Network for single parents

• Networking of colleagues working in addiction support
• Improving services for female substance abusers
• Continuing education, public relations

 

Meeting location
ZGF

Meetings
are held quarterly.

Participation requirements:
female gender, connection to addiction support services

level
: Bremen

Cooperation with other working groups and committees:
Gender Working Group, Women's Health Forum

The working group (AK) on violence against women and girls includes female experts who work with women and girls affected by violence in Bremen and Bremerhaven.

The working group addresses what appropriate women's, social, and health policies should look like in the state of Bremen in the area of ​​"violence against women and girls." In addition to professional exchange and networking, the working group's regular meetings also enable the development of cross-organizational concepts for women- and girl-friendly work in the field of violence prevention.

Since its inception in 2011, this has proven particularly valuable because the focus in institutions operating with limited resources is on daily operations on the ground. Key areas of focus have included the perpetrator-victim dynamic, psychotraumatology, and intercultural and transcultural competence in the workplace.

members
: Office against Discrimination and Violence at the University of Bremen (ADE), AWO Specialist Service for Migration, Focus on Violence against Women, Autonomous Women's Shelter Bremen, AWO Women's Shelter Bremen, Women's Shelter Bremen-North, Women's Counseling Center for Domestic Violence and Women's Shelter (GISBU) Bremerhaven, Women's Health Center Tenever, Girls' Shelter Bremen eV, New Paths – Ways out of Relationship Violence, Psychological Counseling Center for Raped Women and Girls, Schattenriss eV, Vielfalt eV, Bremen Police (Specialized Unit for Sexual Offenses), Wendo Network, Caritas Accommodation for Refugee Women and their Children, Child Protection Center, Stalking Kit, Counseling for Victims of Human Trafficking and Forced Prostitution (BBMeZ).
 

Meeting location
ZGF

Meetings are held
4 times per year.

Participation requirements:
Invitation and interest, professional staff who provide professional support to women and girls who experience violence

Working level:
State and local level

Cooperation with other working groups and committees:
yes, depending on the focus