Author

Manja Liehr

published on

17.04.2025

Where are they?!

Where have they gone? Fathers, partners, employers, male friends, grandfathers?
Mothers' issues are not niche topics. They are the basis of our life together.
But it is precisely this foundation that is breaking - quietly, steadily, exhausted.
Because the mothers can no longer do it. And many don't want to either.
No longer bear sole responsibility.
No more fighting for compatibility, justice, visibility.
No longer being the glue that holds everything together - while no one realizes how fragile the system has long been.

What would happen if they went on strike?
Like in Iceland. Or perhaps even more radical:
What if they decided to demand nothing less than 100 % equality from now on?
No more token conversations.
No "we'll put it off until next year".
No lip service to care work, mental load, parental allowance, pension gaps, lack of childcare places, invisible responsibility.

What would happen then?
No daycare, no school, no care.
No care, no organization, no permanent emotional presence.
No more mothers who sacrifice themselves - so that the system still works halfway.
It can't go on like this.
Not for the mothers. Not for our children. Not for the future of this society.

And now we ask:
Where are you - who benefit from this care every day?
Where are those who are finally standing up - not to "support" us, but because it is also your issue?

⭕️ On May 10, we will take to the streets - with hundreds of thousands of mothers and everyone who knows: Nothing works without care.
❤️‍🔥 We demand: Visibility. Respect. Structural change.
💫 And we won't stop until the system moves.
hunderttausendmütter - and all those who have understood:
Care is not a female destiny. It is a political mandate.

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