Preventing women’s poverty – Why care and paid work are crucial

Worrying figures are confirmed in the Caritas social advice centers: two thirds of the people who seek help there are women, and almost 20 percent are single parents. Poverty is not fate, poverty is the result of unjust structures. The value society places on care and paid work determines whether women’s poverty can be prevented.

AK and Caritas explain what needs to be done to ensure women and children have the good future they deserve.

AK & Caritas press conference: Preventing women’s poverty

Renate Anderl, AK President

Nora Tödtling-Musenbichler, President of Caritas Austria

Datum: Tuesday, November 26th, 2024, 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m

Ort: 1040 Vienna, AK media room, Plößlgasse 2, 6th floor

Media representatives are warmly invited to the press conference.

You can also watch the press conference via Livestream track: AK and Caritas: Preventing women’s poverty | Vienna Chamber of Labor . Please email questions to nani.kauer@akwien.at.

Questions for journalists:

Chamber of Labor:

Katharina Nagele-Allahyari

AK Vienna – Communication

1040, Prinz Eugen Street 20-22

T: +43 15016512678

Katharina.NAGELE@akwien.at

wien.arbeiterkammer.at

Caritas Austria:

Mag. and Claudia Vitt

Press spokesperson

Caritas Austria

Tel.: +43 664 82 66 920

claudia.vitt@caritas-austria.at