Women on the ORF screen: Holzleitner demands real equality!

Women on the ORF screen: Holzleitner demands real equality!

Wels, Österreich - The departures of prominent journalists at ORF ensure turmoil. After the farewell to Claudia Reiterer and Verena Scheitz, Birgit Fenderl is now before her last appearance. The popular evening magazine Studio2 will start in a changed form on Friday - but without Fenderl. Politicians have now also reached this wave of the departures. Eva-Maria Holzleitner, women's spokeswoman for the SPÖ, commented on the subject on the platform X and sees the departure as a significant wake-up call.

Holzleitner emphasizes that women on public service broadcasting urgently need to remain visible, regardless of their age. "It shouldn't be that women over 50 disappear from the screen," the politician demands. She also criticizes the existing gender in ORF, since the salaries of women are mostly located in the lower classes, while men represent the top earners. "The gender play gap is a growing problem," continued Holzleitner. Clear measures to improve equal opportunities are urgently needed in order to strengthen the role of women in the media not only theoretically, but also practical.

political demands for equality

Holzleitner, representative of a new generation of politicians and Federal President of the SPÖ since 2021, advocates actual equality in public service broadcasting. "The public service broadcasting has a role model function-and it starts with real equality. Women belong to the screens, in management and at the top," she explains. The relevance of your words is also underpinned by the current personnel carousel within the ORF, which obviously point out grievances. This Situation could be used as an opportunity to finally make changes so that equality not only takes place in the statutes, but also in reality.