Employment and gender relations in transition
The signs of the crisis in recent years have exacerbated social inequality in two respects: Not only is social inequality deepening within many societies worldwide, but the gap between individual states remains. In the EU, too, countries with high economic strength and relatively low unemployment figures are facing those with weak economic activity and high unemployment figures. The social crises also have a clear gender side: Not only do women have lower incomes and an increased risk of becoming unemployed, they are also more precarious. They also do most of the reproductive work, that is, caring for children and those in need of care, as well as household chores.
In this context, socialization through the labor market and the private household is taken into account with special consideration of gender and researched under the sign of the multiple crises of recent years. The increase in low-paid, household-related service activities in the Global North and the increased feminization of migration in the context of an international division of labor can only be understood as a care crisis in connection with the withdrawal of welfare state security systems. The department is therefore devoted to examining the connection between precarity and gender, in particular the gender pay gap, but also the historical development of gendered employment relationships.
Activities:
Pflücke, Virginia Kimey und Anna Kow (2018): [work in progress]. Lohnarbeit, Reproduktion und die Gleichheit der Geschlechter. Beitrag in: Linkerhand, Koschka: Feministisch streiten. Texte zu Vernunft und Leidenschaft unter Frauen. Querverlag, Berlin.
Pflücke, Virginia Kimey (im Erscheinen): Wenn Hausarbeit bezahlt wird. Der Wandel der Arbeitsbeziehung im Privathaushalt in Spanien und Uruguay. Dissertationsschrift bei Campus: Labour Studies, Frankfurt a.M.
Projekt “Gender Pay Gap: New solutions for an old problem. Developing transnational strategies together with trade unions and gender equality units to tackle the gender pay gap.” (2014-2016, Förderung durch Europäische Kommission, DG Justice, PROGRESS, ca. 40.000 Euro)
Projekt: „European Network of Experts on Gender Equality (ENEGE) “ der Europäischen Kommission, DG Justice (seit 2012)
Habilitationsprojekt: Scheele, Alexandra: Krise und Geschlecht. Neue Artikulationsformen und Ungleichheiten (laufend)
Scheele, Alexandra 2014: „Doppelbelastung: nur ein Frauenthema? Zum Zusammenhang von Arbeit und Leben." Vortrag im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung „Arbeit der Zukunft – Mehr Freiheit oder mehr Stress“ (14.10.2014) im IKMZ der BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg.
Scheele, Alexandra 2014: „Public Childcare Services in the European Union: The model of Germany“. Vortrag im Frauenausschusses des Europäischen Parlamentes in Brüssel
(25. 11.2014).
Lepperhoff, Julia / Scheele, Alexandra 2014: Zwischen Finanzmarkt und Fürsorge: Feministische Perspektiven auf Ökonomie und Arbeit. In: Rendtorff, Barbara / Riegraf, Birgit / Mahs, Claudia (Hrsg.): 40 Jahre Feministische Debatten. Resümee und Ausblick. Weinheim und Basel: Beltz Juventa, S. 118-133 (mit Julia Lepperhoff).
Annesley, Claire / Scheele, Alexandra 2011: Gender, Capitalism and Economic Crisis:
Impact and Responses across Europe. In: Journal of Contemporary European Studies. Vol. 19, No. 3, pp 335-347.