February 09, 2010Socialist women were clearly visible in the SDAP delegations to the Nationalrat (Parliament), accounting for some 13 percent at their high point of participation. Socialist women were better represented in the Viennese municipal government where they accounted for nearly 20 percent of SDAP councillors by the early 1930s. I do not turn to
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service to students via internet Although there were many more new faces here than in the delegation to the Nationalrat, the average age was still 50 to 55, with the age group of women with children from 25 to 40 not represented at all (in a party whose members were considerably younger than the general population). Only one female city councillor came from the established women's leadership elite; two-thirds had a working-class background or occupation; and all had spent more than twenty years in party work at the district, social, and cultural level. As we shall see, the percentage of women SDAP members and voters in national and municipal elections as well as their selective representation in parliament and the Viennese City Council were symbolic of their political citizenship.
