 Among other things, this is realized by means of gender trainings that raise awareness of existing inequalities and develop methods to democratize relations between genders.The term gender democracy was first coined and developed by German sociologist Halina Bedkowski.According to Halina Bendkowski she developed the term and concept of gender democracy in the early 1990s during a "research trip to the US, which had been commissioned by Austria's Minister for Women, Johanna Dohal, with the aim of identifying innovative projects against domestic violence."