As part of the 27th Federal Conference of Municipal Women's and Equal Opportunities Officers in Leipzig from May 14 to 16, 2023, Equal Opportunities Officer Fränzi Strassberger (Bautzen) and State Equal Opportunities Officer Manuela Dörnenburg (Brandenburg) organized the expert forum "Gender equality in structural change - a prospect for equality" with Julia Gabler

Shaping the coal phase-out and the associated structural change is a challenge for society as a whole with different effects on the genders. If structural change is to succeed, women must be involved. Since 2020, an alliance of municipal equal opportunities officers from Brandenburg and Saxony, together with representatives from research and civil society, has been campaigning for greater gender equality in structural change. Contents of the forum: a regional study and its course through the institutions, F wie Kraft - a civil society platform between research and administration, gender equality officers - structural change agents at several levels.

• Dr. Julia Gabler is Director of the TRAWOS Institute/HSZG and has held the deputy professorship in the Management of Social Change course at the Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences since 2020. She is co-author of the study "Who's coming? who's going? Who stays? - A study on the chances of qualified women staying in the district of Görlitz.
• Manuela Dörnenburg is the State Commissioner for Gender Equality in Brandenburg,
• Fränzi Straßberger is Equal Opportunities and Women's Representative for the City of Bautzen and co-initiator of Frauen.Wahl.LOKAL Oberlausitz.