to Gender-Politik-Online, an internet portal of the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the Free University Berlin concerning gender subjects.

For some time gender relations have become an acknowledged subject of research in the social sciences, especially in political science and sociology.
It is a cross sectional topic that is tangent to all areas of the particular subjects, from gender-specific voting behaviour and discrimination in the labour market/ unequal employment opportunities to the questioning of the fundamental premises of “classic” and contemporary political philosophers and theorists. Moreover, the immediate practical relevance of knowledge about the category “gender” is reflected in the ubiquitous strategy of “Gender Mainstreaming”, which is designed to make gender an essential part of all political decision making processes in the European Union and its member states.

On this webpage you can find basic information about the central topics of gender research and teaching. Added to a short summary of the synoptic texts are further web links. The respective texts can be downloaded as a PDF file by clicking the button link.
This way, students at universities and colleges as well as journalists and other people interested in gender research can inform themselves, and teachers may use the texts in their classes with little effort.
Some of the contributions can also be downloaded in English, Polish or Russian, some other papers are at least introduced by abstracts in foreign languages.



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