INSTITUTE FOR WOMEN’S AND GENDER STUDIES

JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY, AUSTRIA

2001

Management and equipment. Structure

  • Management
  • Office
  • Research fellows
  • Student staff

Objectives

  • The central goal of Gender Studies is to analyze the real consequences of social gender images, for example in the areas of business, society, education, science as well as in art and culture.
  • To develop research on three dimensions:
    • Social and economic gender dimensions
    • Cultural Studies Gender Dimensions
  • Technoscientific Gender Dimensions

Research and results

Publications and projects:

  • TEquality – Technology.Gender.Equality (Hauch G., Horwath I., Kronberger N., Wörtl I., 2004-2006).
  • Self-Defense IT. Migrant women defend themselves against violence in new media (Caixeta L, Carrington K, Ernst W, Gouma A, 2011-2013).
  • Book Project: Between equality successes and anti-feminism. Ambiguous tendencies in the modernization of gender relations (Senk -formerly Zimmermann- J., 2012 – 2013).
  • Expert opinion as part of the awarding of the talent promotion award of the state of Upper Austria (Ernst W., 2013).
  • Gender in Science and Technology. Interdisciplinary Approaches (Ernst W., Horwath I., 2013-2014).
  • Discrimination against Fathers who take Parental Leave (Schmieder J., Weichselbaumer D., Welteke C., Wrohlich K., 2018-2021).

Ongoing projects

  • Discrimination against (potential) mothers in the labor market (Doris Weichselbaumer).
  • Discrimination against ethnic minorities in the Austrian labor market (Doris Weichselbaumer und Julia Schuster).
  • Neo-materialism (Waltraud Ernst).
  • Salary differences between university graduates: What influence does the gender composition within a profession or a field of study have on the «gender wage gap»? (Juliane Ransmayr and Doris Weichselbaumer).
  • Wage losses or wage bonuses? A meta-study on the effect of sexual orientation on wages (Juliane Ransmayr and Doris Weichselbaumer).
  • Automated justice? Criticism and orientation for the digital transformation (Waltraud Ernst).
  • Inflation, Debt, Discipline: Crisis Politics, Masculinities and Cultural Gender Politics in the Euro Crisis (Frederic Heine).