1. NAME CONTACT PERSONS

Margareta Kreimer

Doris Weichselbaumer

2. FEMINIST, WOMEN'S AND/OR GENDER RESEARCH INSTITUTES

Gender and Diversity Institute

Wirtschaftsuniversität

Wien

www.wu.wien.ac.at/inst/gender

Institute for Women's and Gender Studies

Johannes Kepler University, Linz

www.frauen.jku.at/genderindex.htm

3. OVERVIEW OF COURSES GIVEN IN FEMINIST ECONOMICS

Most Austrian universities offer courses in feminist economics - at least occasionally. Since the program varies for different semesters, please consult the homepages of the coordinating units for gender studies and gender research:

Graz: www.kfunigraz.ac.at/kffwww

Klagenfurt: www.uni-klu.ac.at/gender/

Vienna:

University of Economics and Business Administration:

www.wu-wien.ac.at/inst/gender/

University of Vienna:

www.univie.ac.at/gender/projekt__lehre.php

Innsbruck: fem.uibk.ac.at

Salzburg: www.sbg.ac.at/gendup

Linz: www.frauen.jku.at

4. GENDER SENSITIVE BUDGET PROJECTS GOING ON

Gabriele Michalitsch (EU)

Ruperta Lichtenecker (Upper Austria)

Elisabeth Klatzer - Women and Budgets Initiative

Since 2001 there is a group of feminist economists, social scientists and women from various public institutions active in working on Gender Budgeting. Contact: Elisabeth Klatzer

5. RESEARCHERS LINKED TO GENDER AND FEMINIST (ECONOMICS) NETWORKS/ ON FEMINIST ECONOMIC

Luise Gubitzer

Roswitha Hofmann:

www.wu-wien.ac.at/inst/gender/mitarbeiterInnen/hofmann.htm

Elisabeth Klatzer

Margareta Kreimer: www.uni-graz.at/margareta.kreimer/

Andrea Leitner: www.equi.at/leitner.htm

Gabriele Michalitsch

Christa Schlager

Karin Schönpflug

Doris Weichselbaumer: www.econ.jku.at/weichsel/

Christine Zulehner: homepage.univie.ac.at/christine.zulehner/

6. LITERATURE

Mostly read titles:

Feministische Ökonomie, Kurswechsel 1/2002 (various articles, for list of content see www.kurswechsel.at )

Beigewum: Frauen Macht Budgets. Staatsfinanzen aus Geschlechterperspektive. Mandelbaum Verlag, Vienna 2002

(first book on Gender budgeting in Austria)

New titles:

Bergmann, Nadja/Gubitzer, Luise/Klatzer, Elisabeth et al., Gender Budgets. Handbuch zur Umsetzung geschlechtergerechter Budgetgestaltung, Vienna 2004. (Gender Budgeting Handbook on how to implement Gender responsive Budgeting at the local and regional level).

7. LINKS TO NATIONAL (FEMINIST) (ECONOMIC) ORGANIZATIONS AND NETWORKS

www.econ.jku.at/weichsel/femoek/index.htm

8. NEWS ON NATIONAL ORIENTED CONFERENCES, SEMINARS (SERIES) AND POLITICAL DISCUSIONS

The third workshop of Austrian Feminist Economists took place on the 4th of June, 2004.

www.economics.uni-linz.ac.at/Weichsel/femoek2004.htm

Frauenringvorlesung on Gender Mainstreaming, 21st of June, 2004

AbsolventInnentag der Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, "Gender Budgeting", 14th of May 2004

www.frauen.jku.at/AbsolventInnentag2004/inhalt.htm