A woman at the top

Equal Pay Day: “The environment didn’t trust me enough”

Iris Filzwieser is President of Austrian Cooperative Research and has been an entrepreneur for 20 years.(Bild: Brainsworld)

Until February 26, women in Styria worked for free on Equal Pay Day. Bernadette Pöcheim from the Chamber of Labor explains how to counteract this injustice. And Iris Filzwieser shows how women can make it to the top.

"When we talk about equal pay, we also talk about self-confidence," says Iris Filzwieser. It was always clear to her that she wanted to go into technology. At the age of 15, she decided to attend a technical college and later completed a doctorate in metallurgy at the University of Leoben. Today, the 53-year-old is Managing Director of the globally active metal company Mettop and the first woman to head Austrian Cooperative Research.