New elections at the Bavarian State Women's Council

On April 8, 2025 in Munich, delegates from the 58 member associations and the parties in the Bavarian state parliament elected the president and executive committee of the Bavarian LFR for the next four years. Our club sister Monika Maier-Pojda was re-elected as President.

She is supported by the newly elected Executive Committee.

Monika has been actively campaigning for women and their equality for years. As in the last four years of her presidency, she would like to continue her successful commitment with the following topics:



• For better equality between women and men
• Against misogynistic and anti-democratic tendencies
• For more representation of women in politics

The very recommendable podcast of the bay. LFR
RECOGNIZING, NAMING AND FIGHTING SEXISM

Tuesday, July 8th 2025 at 7.pm

Strong together in diversity

Panel and discussion

Maryam Giyahchi,  Chairwoman Stadtbund 
Monika Meier-Pojda, President of BayLFR
Micky Wenngatz,
Chairwoman of the LHM Equal Opportunities Commission

Tuesday, September 9th 2025

Elisabeth Schwarzhaupt - Women
in politics
Initiative Parity in the Parliaments 

Lecture

Dr. Dorothea Schwarzhaupt-Scholz

Saturday, August 2nd 2025, 10.30pm

"Rulers and beauties in Nymphenburg Palace"

Nymphenburg Palace from a woman's perspective followed by lunch at the Metzgerwirt

Summer excursion

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In June, we once again were able to spend a wonderful evening at the Museum for Cast under the guidance of our President Susanne Pfisterer-Haas. The occasion was the touring exhibition “Ein gut Theil Eigenheit - Lebenswege früher Archäologinnen” by the AktArcha research project, which aims to highlight the achievements of women in various areas of archaeology. In Munich, the exhibition was expanded to include several panels and display cases on the life and professional work of classical archaeologist Ingeborg Scheibler. Not only did she manage the cast collection for a quarter of a century between 1966 and 1991 and taught as an adjunct professor at the university, she also on March 26, 1976 founded the SI Club Munich-Schwabing as the second Munich club with 22 other women.

We were delighted with the greeting from our SID President Manuela Nitsche. She emphasized how well the aim of the exhibition - to make female achievements visible - fits in with the aims of SI.

Sisters, should prostitution have a prosperous future in Germany?

At one of our last club evenings, we heard a very convincing plea for the so-called "Nordic Model", which is used in Scandinavia to enforce the criminalisation of sex buyers, pimps and brothel operators.

Liane Bissinger and Dr. Inge Kleine from KOFRA (Communication Centre for Women in Work and Life) gave us an insight into the state of the discussion. Contrary to what is often claimed, the legislative changes of 2002 and 2017 have not improved the situation of prostitutes in Germany, on the contrary, they have massively worsened it and made Germany the brothel of Europe.

How should this now look in the future? Laws are legal norms: They determine how something has to be. The current legislation promotes prostitution and in particular leads to sex buyers being able to consider themselves law-abiding.

Feelings of shame due to deliberate violations of norms are either not built up in the first place (young clients) or greatly reduced by the lack of social sanctions and the assumption that they are 'only' using a completely legal service.

In addition, prostitution is a flourishing business in which everyone earns a lot of money, at the expense of the people who have to prostitute themselves and are usually suffering and traumatised. Is this really how it is supposed to go on??

Is this what we want or is it not time for a paradigm shift?

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