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Association of Women Inc.

• The Association of Women - Innovation Network for Women round the world Inc. is a charitable, politically, racially and confessionally neutral organization for working women of all professions. Branch offices of the Women's Association will be opened all over Germany in the near future, for example the office in the "capital Berlin in October 2004.
  The Association aims to promote the cooperation, the equal status and the equal rights for women and men in the public and private sector and to help deepening and improving the relations of women and men on all levels and in all fields of society.

• The Association fosters the solidarity amongst women and will encourage them to claim theirshare of power in society by taking over responsible and outstanding positions in all social aspects (i.e. politics, economy, culture, science, media, sports, healthy and education)
  Furthermore the Association offers active help, for example by helping women to find a new job or to reintegrate in the working process. It also supports international peace and international understanding.

• The Association regularly invites to get-togethers, informational meetings and other activiti6s at different locations all over Germany and abroad. To each meeting a guest of honor and also men in responsible positions are invited. Up to now guests of honor were among others: Dr. Christine Bermann; former Federal Minister, Dr. Claudia Schreiner, TV Program Director, Christine Wischer, Senator, Regina Ziegler, Movie Producer, Dr. Kerstin Kießler, Staatsrätin, Susan Elbow, US Consul General, Karin Röpke, Senator, Professor Vera Regnitz-Zagrosek, Inge Sandstedt, President of the VDU (German Employers' Association), Cheryl Weise, US Consular Agent, Renate Schmidt, Federal Minister, Mona Mostafa­Abdullatif, Dubai, Lilio Capell, Patron in Dubai, Dagmar Reim, Intendant rbb Broadcasting Service Berlin-Brandenburg, Ulla Schmidt (Bundesministerin), Prof. Dr. Ursula Staudinger (IOB), Detthold Aden (Vorstandsvors. BLG Logistics), Landrat Dr. Mielke, Angelika Jahr (Gruner+Jahr), Barbara Grobien (Ehrenbürgerin der Freien Hansestadt Bremen), Ulrich Nußbaum (Senator a.D. der Freien Hansestadt Bremen), Prof. Dr. Malika Zutfacar (Afghanische Botschafterin), Götz Wenker (Vorsitzender der Geschäftsführung AWD Deutschland GmbH), Prof. Dr. Rudolf Hickel, Prof. Dr. Fürgen Timm, Conrad Naber (Naber GmbH & Co. KG), Christian Weber (Präsident der Bremischen Bürgerschaft), Ralf Nagel (Senator für Wirtschaft und Häfen), Petra Lendendecker (Präsidentin VDU), Ulrike Hauffe (Landesbeauftragte für die Verwirklichung der Gleichberechtigung der Frau in Bremen), Jens Böhrnsen (Bürgermeister und Präsident des Senats der Freien Hansestadt Bremen), Lard Haider (Chefredakteur WESER KURIER und BREMER NACHRICHTEN), Dr. Klaus Sondergeld, (Geschäftsführer Wirtschaftsförderung Bremen GmbH).

• The Association serves as a forum for women and men to exchange their views and experiences relating to all questions and problems of common interest. Women and men shall be made aware that only by working together and by increasing comprehension of each other's perspective improvements in society can be achieved.