The Käthe Leichter State Award (site in German) for women’s studies, gender studies, and equal opportunities at the workplace is awarded to honor outstanding achievements in a number of different areas. Susanne Raab, Austrian minister for women, family, youth, and integration at the Federal Chancellery, presented this year’s awards to the recipients, among them Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger.

Rector Hanappi-Egger received a prize in recognition of her lifetime achievements and her commitment to gender and diversity research. In particular, the award recognizes her academic work, which has contributed to a fuller understanding of diversity management, and her status as a prominent role model. In 2015, Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger became WU Vienna’s first female Rector, and she has headed the institution since then.

Only very recently, in December 2021, she was reelected as a member of the board of Universities Austria (uniko).