Project Details
Projekt
Reconciliation of paid work and care work in the new quarters between egalitarian gender relations and changing structural conditions of labout
Applicant
Professorin Dr. Henriette Bertram
Subject Area
Urbanism, Spatial Planning, Transportation and Infrastructure Planning, Landscape Planning
Term
since 2023
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 466529662
Suburban residential quarters have been widely criticised because their infrastructure and layout impeded gender equality and made it difficult to combine paid work and care work. Contemporary city expansion projects seem to be oriented towards the concept of the Compact City again - among other things, as a result of this critique. It remains unclear, however, how exactly gender sensitivity criteria are taken into account by planners. It is also unresearched how the possibilities for reconciling paid work and care work have changed in the new (supposedly urbanised) quarters have changed and which spatial and structural conditions caregivers need to manage the demand of their daily lives. The project analyses the measures and strategies that are used 1) by planners and 2) by inhabitants of the new quarters to support the reconciliation of paid work and care work in the light of increasingly equal gender relations. It researches 3) which other administrative, civil society and business actors take on or could take on supportive roles for caregivers in collaboration with urban planning.
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