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): 3-12 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2020.009
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...
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...
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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): 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,...
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O’Neal, C. 2016. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases inequality and Threatens Democracy. New York: Crown Publishers.
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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): 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): 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): 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 (1): 199-203
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Recenze knihy Wiesner, A. Jediná jistota je změna
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Review of book Kasanda, A. Contemporary African Social and Political Philosophy
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Review of book Namuggala, V. F. Childhood, Youth Identity, and Violence in Formerly Displaced Communities in Uganda
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Review of book Shackel, R., Fiske, L. (eds.) Rethinking Transitional Gender Justice. Transformative Approaches in Post-Conflict Settings
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2020, 21 (1): 154-181 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2020.008
The oppression of single mothers generally takes specific forms in neoliberal society, because the traditional pressure associated with the female caring role is accompanied by oppression derived from their dependence on the welfare system. Social work can play an important role in this oppression because, as one of the ‘psy’ professions, it becomes a tool of surveillance of fulfilment of the female caring role and aims to discourage women from dependency on welfare system at the same time. The aim of the article is to reflect the risk of oppression of single mothers from the Czech social work in the context of the cultural policy...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2020, 21 (1): 130-153 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2020.007
In contemporary (not only) Czech society, the share of childless persons is increasing. Research in the field of social sciences focuses mainly on explanation of female childlessness than male one. This text tries to at least partially fill the gap in research when focusing on male childlessness from the perspective of masculinity, resp. hegemonic masculinity. Thematic analysis of repeated problem-oriented interviews with 12 heterosexual men (of different age and education) focuses on explanation of the life experience of these men with childlessness, respectively their perception of childlessness in relation to the conditions and circumstances of...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2020, 21 (1): 116-129 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2020.006
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2020, 21 (1): 90-115 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2020.005
This article documents evidence from a qualitative study in which 67 in–depth interviews and a focus group discussion were conducted with aging and old market women. The study focused on what ‘old’ means, how aging and old market women redefine the meaning of ‘old’ to gain economic independence. The findings indicate that the meaning is still greatly attached to physical changes; there are differences in how different individuals respond to the changes, some challenge the gender stereotypes and prejudice attached to old age and show resilience. Indicators of resilience among market women included: an active economic...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2020, 21 (1): 64-88 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2020.004
Development narratives posit that through entrepreneurship, young women can become empowered economic agents, instrumental to the development of their communities. As feminist scholars have pointed out, these narratives serve to homogenise, depoliticise, and ahistoricise the category ‘young woman’ and to naturalise the inequitable global structures in which it is embedded. To universalise young womanhood is to ignore the ways in which young women's lives are shaped by their cultural contexts and by structural constraints. As a result, most development schemes targeting young women as entrepreneurs fail to recognize the ways in which engaging...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2020, 21 (1): 38-62 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2020.003
Gender based violence (GBV) refers to any form of sexual, physical, psychological, or economic harm or threat to harm another that is rooted in gender based inequalities and unequal power relations. GBV violates human rights, significantly hampers economic productivity and development, and threatens health and wellbeing of millions worldwide. The WHO notes that over 35% of women worldwide have experienced GBV, however, in Uganda it is up to 74%. While several efforts have been put in place to address GBV, the most popularly used approach in Uganda is women’s economic empowerment (WEE). This paper critiques the WEE approach for prevention of GBV...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2020, 21 (1): 18-37 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2020.002
In 1929-30, British missionaries active in central Kenya sought the help of the British colonial government in banning and eventually eradicating the Gikuyu tradition of female circumcision. This was met by an uproar amongst the Gikuyu population, many of whom protested in the form of the Muthirigu dance song, giving rise to what is known as the ‘female circumcision controversy.’ Contemporary sources demonstrate the numerous contributions to the debate on the issue, including from missionary societies, colonial officials, British women, and Kenyan men, who all incorporated the controversy into their various agendas, be it concern...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2020, 21 (1): 3-17 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2020.001
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Review of book Jha, M. R. 2016. The Global Beauty Industry: Racism, Colorism and the National Body. New York: Routledge.
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Review of book Hammad, H. 2016. Industrial Sexuality: Gender, Urbanization, and Social Transformation in Egypt. Austin: University of Texas Press.
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Review of book Özyürek, E. 2015. Being German, Becoming Muslim: Race, Religion, and Conversion in the New Europe. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press.
