Institut für regionale Innovation und Sozialforschung
Gender is a fundamental category structuring not only individual life courses and biographies but also society at large. Boys and girls, men and women are confronted with different role expectations, they make different experiences and they develop different life plans and strategies. These differences are connected with unequal chances. On the labour market, women are still disadvantaged while they do not receive appropriate support for their main responsability for family care. A relatively new phenomenon, however, is the disadvantage of boys in education – the consequences of which are still not yet fully predictable.
On the level of research we are interested how individuals in reproduce or change gender roles in interaction with societal structures; and how this varies internationally across different social structures.
On the practice level we are involved in the process of implementing gender mainstreaming in the context of education, employment and family policies in order to facilitate social spaces boys and girls, women and men can develop life plans and gender identities in a self-determined way.
One of the working groups of the UP2YOUTH project is dealing with the situation and coping strategies of young parents. UP2YOUTH is a European research network funded by the EU’s 6th framework programme. It gathers 17 research institutions from all over Europe . For more information, please visit the Internet portal www.up2youth.org
Gender Mainstreaming at the „Arbeits-Initiative Backnang“ Monitoring and evaluation of the establishment of a gender mainstreaming approach in a welfare organisation that promotes employment for people that have been unemployed for a long time Description of the project: The goal of the project was to evaluate gender issues in a regional initiative for employment and to restructure the approach, the concepts and the offers of the initiative in order to improve equal opportunities and conditions for women and men on …
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„Equal opportunities for young men and young women who are in transition from school to work as a political strategy and concept in the establishment of local networks for employment“ Duration of the project: January 2001 – September 2002 Summary The project aimed at improving local networks for employment that provide transitions to work for young women and men in a way that they become aware for gender-specific needs and trajectories. The network approach was analysed and developed with regard …
Title of the project: Qualitative investigation of boys concerning health problems relevant to sex education, as well as sex education and medical advice Duration: July 1, 1996 – December 31, 1997 Project leader: Dr. Reinhard Winter Gunter Neubauer IRIS FB Jungen und Männer Lorettoplatz 6 72072 Tübingen Target group: Boys and male adolescents Sample: 64 key persons and experts 181 boys and male adolescents (9 – 18 years old) Method: Explorative focus group interviews Qualitative interviews based on guidelines Objective: …
1996-1999 Coordination of the pilot project „Regional cooperation network to create new job opportunities“ for women in social services, for children, young people and deprived persons in a rural and structurally weak region, under the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), article 10. 1997-1999 Coordinator of the project „Success criteria for the continuing education of women“; financed from the program „LEONARDO da VINCI“ of the Directorate General for Education and Culture of the European Union.
Boys work Pilot project funded by the Federal Ministry for Families, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth to implement gender aware work with boys. Duration: 1998 – 2001