[Time, 2010] In the promotion of girls had been achieved a lot, says the family minister. Now is the turn of the opposite sex
The TIME: Mrs. Schroeder, you will soon change the name of your ministry?
Kristina Schroeder, Why?
TIME: It is the Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth. Given the absence of the men.
Schröder to a name change was intended. The truth is, however, that this government made the first specific one boy and Men's policy will operate.
TIME: Why?
Schröder: First, because a modern family policy with the men not working. Second, we know that not everything as it used to girls, but boys are the problem children. You sit more often, are more often without training, make high school less frequently. The task of policy must be to eliminate this disadvantage. In girls, we have achieved a lot, now we want to achieve with the boys as much.
TIME: What do you intend to do?
Schröder: The poorer performance of boys is in part because that kindergartens and schools dominated by female are. In the day-care centers are only three percent of men teachers.
TIME: What should it be bad?
Schroeder: I do not think that teachers or teachers consciously discriminate against boys, as they give lower grades. But the fact is that many boys growing up without men. They lack so realistic role models. Sometimes developed into a cult of masculinity, the violence even idealized.
TIME: These are extreme cases.
Schröder: but make us very worried. In the macho culture that we find in some immigrants, but also for example, right-wing youths, often prevailing view, a man could beat his wife or he must defend his honor with violence. related to these false notions of masculinity must promote boys a response.
TIME: young educators have been warning today at the thought that boys are no longer allowed to be boys.
Schröder: Boys have a natural need to measure their physical strength, so to rave and fight. Not every fight has to stop so the same with a mediator. I also see in many educational institutions, the danger, consider the more adapted behavior of girls as the norm. It should be the latent greater aggressiveness of boys but in responsibly "direct.
TIME: Such as?
Schröder: In Offenbach, there is a project called "hard but fair - Northrend boxing club," train the boy to box and practice the same rules and discipline. They also get help with homework. This is extremely good.
TIME: Where will the teachers come from?
Schröder: Together with the Federal Employment Agency, we want to retrain unemployed men to educators. In Brandenburg we have made good experience. Since there are former tradesmen who use their skills today kindergartens. These new teachers are being recruited even from other provinces.
TIME: not terrify the poor pay more in educational institutions from the men?
Schröder: In need, we also speak. However, one must know that the payment of motor vehicle mechatronics is much better. In the kindergarten or primary school must be able to of course take a career. This requires that we enhance the professional training for educators - for example, by bottoming technical college.
TIME: How do you win the boys?
Schroeder: for example, by a Boys Day, we offer in 2011 in parallel with the Girls Day. For ten years we have done on this day, to attract girls to non-female occupations. But boys can be when choosing a career guide still very different from stereotypes. Here, the traditional male professions in which it comes to power or mechanical skills, less and less. The future is in services - particularly in the social field that is now dominated by women, for example in the elderly.
TIME: How should the school more attuned to the needs of boys?
Schröder: Teachers need to consider the interests of boys better. For the often prefer to read adventure books and essays as stories, in which it comes to relationships or animals. It may also belong to a gender-sensitive education, boys and girls to teach in each subject at times disconnected. But also we should only worry about if there is scientific evidence.
TIME: Have you ever had the feeling it more difficult to have a girl or woman?
Schroeder: No, neither at school nor at university. Meanwhile, women in politics in all parties generally welcomed with open arms. Also, because we think that women voters arrive at very good.
TIME: If the project is to feminism as passé?
Schroeder: I have a feminist doing battle against the men, always looked at critically. Nor do I believe in the thesis of Simone de Beauvoir, that one was not born a woman but only to be made. Yet my generation benefited from much of what women have fought for. Unlike in the past, I also believe that a quota for women is sometimes necessary. For example, in my party, the CDU. As the calls while quorum, but a kind of soft quota.
PERIOD: And the economy?
Schroeder: I was on a voluntary and competitive. Companies that undertake such as Telekom at a higher percentage of women have my sympathy. For me, distinguishes a progressive enterprise, the strengths use of both sexes.
TIME: What can women better?
Schröder: These are generally solution-oriented and pragmatic. The principle, "It was already said everything, not just seems to me," I am more a male invention.
TIME: Is Angela Merkel is an example of female leadership?
Schroeder: Yes, especially when compared with the more macho Gerhard Schröder. The Chancellor is not something Actress.
TIME: Where do you see women or disadvantaged?
Schröder: In parts of the economy, while women are partly to blame, that while get better grades, but not the better jobs. In salary negotiations, for example, they tend to put their light under a bushel. And they are too timid when executive positions are filled. You rather wait out that they are asked. But Until that happens, only five men have raised my hand. Women should be as confident.
TIME: Maybe women do not have a presence around the clock, what is required of this country, many managers still.
Schröder: These are anachronistic corporate culture there. Who feels responsible for his family can not afford it - whether man or Woman. Yet I see up in a bit. Even in law firms or consulting firms, where the presence of culture has so far been important, more attention is paid to family-friendliness. Nevertheless, I would like to see more men, if a meeting is set to 19 clock say: You can not, because I have an appointment - with my children.
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