https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Austria in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Austria's constitutional court on Friday ruled that people not wanting to be identified as either male or female should have the right to do so when completing official forms, a big step towards the formal recognition of a third gender. https://www.thelocal.at/20180630/austrian-court-moves-to-recognise-third-gender Sat, 30 Jun 2018 04:42:49 +0200 austrian-court-moves-to-recognise-third-gender An Austrian official is to receive more than €300,000 ($370,000) for being unfairly passed over for promotion because of his gender, Austrian media reported on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.at/20180320/austrian-who-sued-over-anti-male-discrimination-to-get-300000-payout Tue, 20 Mar 2018 14:35:20 +0100 austrian-who-sued-over-anti-male-discrimination-to-get-300000-payout Austrian prosecutors said on Friday that they have launched a preliminary enquiry into possible sexual assault in the Alpine country's hallowed professional skiing scene in the 1970s and as recently as 2005. https://www.thelocal.at/20171124/sexual-assault-allegations-emerge-in-austrian-elite-skiing Fri, 24 Nov 2017 17:47:26 +0100 sexual-assault-allegations-emerge-in-austrian-elite-skiing Hundreds of women (men are also welcome) are expected to attend the Women’s March on Vienna on January 21st, the day after the inauguration of US President Donald Trump, in a show of support for human and civil rights. https://www.thelocal.at/20170119/why-women-will-march-in-vienna-on-saturday Thu, 19 Jan 2017 11:20:47 +0100 why-women-will-march-in-vienna-on-saturday Alarming attitudes about sexual consent in Austria have been highlighted in a new Eurobarometer poll. https://www.thelocal.at/20161129/poll-reveals-worrying-attitudes-to-sexual-violence-in-austria Tue, 29 Nov 2016 12:59:40 +0100 poll-reveals-worrying-attitudes-to-sexual-violence-in-austria A court in Austria has ruled that an intersex person who applied to have ‘third gender’ entered into his passport has to identify as either female or male. https://www.thelocal.at/20161011/austrian-intersex-person-denied-third-gender-passport Tue, 11 Oct 2016 18:16:55 +0200 austrian-intersex-person-denied-third-gender-passport 42 percent of under 45-year-olds in Austria are critical of mothers with small children who have a job, and believe “a preschooler suffers if his or her mother works”. https://www.thelocal.at/20160929/austrian-men-tend-to-be-critical-of-working-mothers Thu, 29 Sep 2016 11:01:31 +0200 austrian-men-tend-to-be-critical-of-working-mothers An Austrian man who was turned away from a lingerie show in a Vienna department store believes he was discriminated against and is taking his case to the Ombud for Equal Treatment. https://www.thelocal.at/20151204/man-excluded-from-lingerie-show-claims-discrimination Fri, 04 Dec 2015 17:43:46 +0100 man-excluded-from-lingerie-show-claims-discrimination Austria’s Ombud for Equal Treatment has ruled that Ladies’ Nights - where nightclubs and bars offer women free admission and cheap drinks on certain evenings - discriminate against men. https://www.thelocal.at/20151120/ladies-nights-unfair-to-men-austrian-ombud-rules Fri, 20 Nov 2015 12:29:20 +0100 ladies-nights-unfair-to-men-austrian-ombud-rules Are you male or female, or something in between? A new study from the MedUni of Vienna reveals that brain structure is significantly different between males and females - and that trans-gender individuals are something different too. https://www.thelocal.at/20150110/gender-identity-all-in-the-head Sat, 10 Jan 2015 11:28:24 +0100 gender-identity-all-in-the-head