235 Jahre Frauenrechte

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235 years ago, France became a constitutional monarchy in which civil rights were enshrined in the constitution. Shortly before its adoption, the author and political activist Olympe de Gouges addressed the French queen with her Déclaration des droits de la Femme et de la Citoyenne (Declaration of the Rights of Women and Citizens) to protest that women had not been taken into account. Just two years later, during the Reign of Terror of the French Revolution, she was executed for her political activism.
In the 19th century determined women pressed for the right to education, they pushed their way into universities and, at the dawn of the 20th century also into politics. However, even in Western Europe the rights demanded by de Gouges were only fully implemented during the Decade of Women, that was proclaimed by the UN 50 in 1976.

On our walk for the International Women’s Day on March 8, we will trace the long road to the adoption of women’s rights, search for traces of the important contributions made by women in Leipzig who fought for change — and we will discuss where we stand today.

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• Führung
• Rundgang
• 2026