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Welcome to the DFG Research Unit “Law – Gender – Collectivity”

Our interdisciplinary Research Unit has been active since January 2018. It brings together scholars of law, sociologists, European ethnologists and historians from the three major Berlin universities, the University of Potsdam and the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder). Read more…

The Research Unit consists of six sub-projects and a coordinating project. In every sub-project, a team investigates a particular empirical research field. In our second funding phase (2021-2024), these are environmental law and climate litigation (A), transnational labor conflicts (B), urban & housing commons (C), consumer protection (D), processes of infrastructurization (E), and human rights, queer genders and sexualities since the 1970s (F).

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Workshop for Scientists and Practitioners

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On Monday, November 16, from 9:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., we, the Executive Committee of Women's Policy of the German Education and Science Union (GEW) and the project of the German Research Foundation (DFG) "Self-empowerment in legalized relations", will be discussing the possibilities of workers unions‘ gender-sensitive interest representation and the role of law in it.

In this workshop, we will bring together unionists and scientists at the intersection of science and practice to discuss how gendered collectives can shift into conflicts of gainful employment. Using the topics of pay equity and flexible working hours, we will be focusing on the following central questions: How can workers unions‘ politics of gender and women‘s equality can become effective through access to law? Is the strategic use of gender categories (of law) conceivable without the threat of prescriptive regulation and stereotyping?

Organizers: Isabell Hensel, Judith Höllmann, Eva Kocher and Frauke Gützkow, member of the Executive Committee of Women's Policy of the German Education and Science Union (GEW).