WOMEN.ruhr.HISTORY.

www.frauenruhrgeschichte.de – Network for female history and projects / Design: hassinger&hassinger&spiler/ Dortmund

WOMEN.ruhr.HISTORY. shows the past and future of the Ruhr by telling the stories of local women from the distant past to the present. The website introduces you to powerful rulers, famous artists, clever entrepreneurs, striking workers, clever scientists and persecuted politicians - all of them women whose lives and work shaped the Ruhr economically, politically and culturally.

The Ruhr mythology would not exist as it does today without the division of labour between men and women before, during and after the industrial age. Families depended not only on the wages brought home by the men working in the mines and steelworks but also on the women’s unpaid work at home.

The Internet portal WOMEN.ruhr.HISTORY. sheds new light on the role of women in the Ruhr then and now in four distinct subject areas:
• WOMEN | REGION tells the history of the Ruhr through the biographies of women.
• RUHR | CITY provides links to other sources on women’s history as well as to the infrastructure supporting greater equality of the sexes in the region, including links to equality offices, women’s archives, museums, projects and initiatives.
• HISTORY | METROPOLIS summarizes the knowledge of local women’s history through the ages.
• NEWS | ON LOCATION is a calendar of events of women-related topics in the framework of RUHR.2010.

The WOMEN.ruhr.HISTORY. website will go live March 7, 2010 at 11:00. The opening ceremony will take place at the LWL Museum of Industry, Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Industriekultur, Zeche Zollern II/IV, Grubenweg 5, 44388 Dortmund.

Starting March 7, 2010, you can find the website (in German) at
www.frauenruhrgeschichte.de