[9][10][11] In the 1980s, she published as a science writer for the German public radio, - among other issues on patriarchal motives of population growth in history and present, and on the New Age movement.
They developed models for artistic and educational work with multimedia, published[14] and taught these concepts with the intention to interest women for the new digital technologies, whereas in the 1980s in German academia a computer-sceptical attitude still prevailed.
This important function of role models - from across the STEM sector - and that they should be introduced to girls at the earliest possible age of "five to twelve" is evidenced by Rentmeister's 2018 essay "This is your captain speaking.
[24] Based on international studies, Rentmeister analyzes here the reasons why for decades the proportion of female pilots worldwide has stagnated at an average of only six percent, and how it could be increased.
"[25] With respect to archaeological reconstructions of historic matriarchies, especially as mirrored in 19th and early 20th centuries reception, Rentmeister developed her ideology-critical approach.
[28] These and other early archaeological texts by Rentmeister were translated into several languages; they were discussed and referred to in the dedicated international and interdisciplinary discourses of the 1970s and 1980s, including architects like Margrit Kennedy[29] and Paola Coppola Pignatelli,[30] and novelists like Christa Wolf.
[35] 1988 Rentmeister analysed the "Debate on Matriarchy" of the past two centuries in Germany, particularly in their significance for the first fifteen years of the second wave women's movement in Europe.
[36] The question of the real existence of contemporary, modern matriarchies led Rentmeister from 1980 to the current to preoccupy with cultural anthropological research findings.
How these benefits correlate statistically with a comparatively high level in the Human Development-Indicators and Reproductive Health, Rentmeister describes 2007 in her essay "Development is female”.