Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2020, 21 (2): 3-12 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2020.009 
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2020, 21 (2): 13-31 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2020.010
Innovative leaps in digital technology alongside changing gender roles in society may open a window of opportunity to renegotiate gendered work patterns. The main question addressed in this article is the extent to which digitalisation holds the potential to reorganise gendered work relations, and if so why. First, we elaborate on the interrelation between work and gender in capitalist societies. Our main argument is that digitalisation is shifting the boundaries between paid and unpaid labour with far-reaching repercussions for women and men. Second, we will identify core digitalisation processes capable of overcoming or changing gendered work patterns....
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2020, 21 (2): 32-58 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2020.013
In Germany, like in many other countries, much of the research on technological changes and their consequences has been devoted to investigating the field of industrial production. A shortcoming of this research is that many female-dominated occupations are excluded per se from consideration. However, whether and to what extent men's and women's perceptions of technological changes in their workplace differ is an important subject of debate. This article addresses the following questions: To what extent are men and women experiencing changes in the technologies of their workplace? Are women less likely to experience such changes? Do men and women anticipate...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2020, 21 (2): 59-84 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2020.011
The rise of the platform economy has brought about crowdwork as a new form of flexible work where individuals solve specific problems or provide specific services or products in exchange for payment via online platforms. Survey data for crowdworkers in Germany collected by the 'Digital Future' collaborative research unit are used to compare gender inequalities in hourly pay among crowdworkers sampled from a marketplace platform and a micro-task platform. The results reveal that fathers earn higher hourly pay than mothers and childless women and men, but only on the marketplace platform. These differences can partly be explained by fathers being better...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2020, 21 (2): 86-102 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2020.014
In this special issue, we want to capture different country perspectives on the connection between the digitalisation of work and gender relations. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world has suddenly found itself in an exceptional situation that had not been foreseen in our editorial project but proved to be relevant for gendered work patterns and digitalisation. Digital systems and devices have seemed to offer the best solutions to the situation of the pandemic and the subsequent lockdowns all over the world. It has become apparent, however, that not everyone has equal access to the internet and technical knowledge of computing, and that...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2020, 21 (2): 104-109
Scholz, T. 2017. Uberworked and Underpaid. How Workers Are Disrupting the Digital Economy. Cambridge, Malden: Polity.
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2020, 21 (2): 109-117
O’Neal, C. 2016. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases inequality and Threatens Democracy. New York: Crown Publishers.
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2020, 21 (2): 118-123
Hana Havelková (1949–2020) was one of the most influential figures of her generation. An internationally renowned thinker and the author of more than seventy publications in Czech, English, and German, she formulated many original and complex arguments about feminist political philosophy, gender theory of culture and society, feminist epistemology, women in science, and the representation of women in politics, media,and public discourse. After the Velvet Revolution, she significantly enriched feminist theorising between ‘East’ and ‘West’, helped to create the conceptual apparatus for a gender analysis of state socialism,...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2020, 21 (2): 123-127
The theme of the 40th Congress of the German Sociological Association (DGS) held this year was ‘Society under Pressure’. It examined various tensions in society such as the tension ‘between rich and poor ..., between political camps and ideologies, between religions and cultural forms, between (re)emerging nations, regions and transnational organisations, between society and nature, between town and country, between generations, and ... between the sexes’.
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2020, 21 (2): 127-130
The world of work is changing rapidly. While this may not be a new discovery, it is still of high political, economic, cultural, and social relevance. The biggest trends include globalisation, transnationalisation, the digitalisation of work, and the flexibilisation of work with new standards for employment (e.g. part-time work, teleworking, positions with changing workplaces, virtual teamwork). In modern societies, the expectation of being geographically mobile, spatially flexible, and available online at all times is increasing. As a consequence, the formerly clear boundaries between the areas of work, family, and private life are becoming increasingly...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2020, 21 (2): 131-134
How does the digitalisation of work change gender relations? And how can digitalisation create new opportunities for more gender justice? These are the questions that were addressed at the conference ‘Wandel der Arbeit durch Digitalisierung = Wandel der Geschlechterverhältnisse?’ (‘Change in Work through Digitalisation = Change in Gender Relations?’), which was organised by the ‘Network for Labour Research NRW’ as a joint event of the Düsseldorf Research Institute for Social Development and the Dortmund Social Research Centre on 19 May 2019 in Dortmund. The organisers, Dr Saskia Freye and Ellen Hilf, welcomed...
