Gabriele Winker

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Gabriele Winker (born November 5, 1956 in Stuttgart ) is a German social scientist and professor of ergonomics and gender studies at the Technical University of Hamburg .

Life

Gabriele Winker studied social sciences from 1975 to 1981 at the University of Konstanz. From 1982 to 1984 she worked as an authorized signatory in a wholesaling company, then from 1985 to 1987 as managing director of an IT consultancy and from 1988 to 1993 as an IT consultant in the Bremen state administration. In 1994 she received her doctorate as Dr. rer. pole. at the University of Bremen with a dissertation on the subject of work and technology design in the context of gender-hierarchical division of labor .

From September 1994 to February 2003 Gabriele Winker was professor for work and social sciences at the FH Furtwangen. There she founded the network "Frauen.Innovation.Technik" in 2001, which to this day links and bundles activities in Baden-Württemberg on women and technology. In the same year she initiated and directed the first Informatica Feminale in Baden-Württemberg, a summer college for female computer scientists that took place at the Furtwangen University of Applied Sciences.

Gabriele Winker has been Professor of Ergonomics and Gender Studies at the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg since March 2003 , where she heads the work area “Work - Gender - Technology”. From 2003 to 2005 she was the spokesperson for the Joint Commission of Hamburg Gender Studies, from which the Center for Gender Knowledge has since emerged.

Publications

Monographs

  • Office. Computer. Gender hierarchy. Women-friendly work design in the writing area. Leske + Budrich, Opladen 1995, ISBN 3-8100-1421-4 (At the same time dissertation at the University of Bremen 1994 under the title: Work and Technology Design in the Context of the Gender-Hierarchical Division of Labor ).
  • Intersectionality. To analyze social inequalities. Together with Nina Degele. transcript, Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-8376-1149-6 .
  • Make engineering courses more attractive. Suggestions for universities. Together with Wibke Derboven. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-00557-2 .
  • Social practices of the unemployed. Social participation - internet use - time trading. Together with Tanja Carstensen and Wibke Derboven. LIT, Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-643-11824-0 (= Sociology Volume 75).
  • Care Revolution: Steps into a solidary society. transcript, Bielefeld 2015, ISBN 978-3-8376-3040-4 .

Editorships

  • Computer networks - women's places. Women in the information society. Together with Veronika Oechtering. Leske + Budrich, Opladen 1998
  • Teleworking and quality of life. To reconcile work and family. Campus, Frankfurt am Main / New York 2001
  • Virtual spaces - new publics. Women's networks on the Internet. Together with Christina Schachtner . Campus, Frankfurt am Main / New York 2005
  • Queer | Feminist criticism of neoliberal conditions. Together with Melanie Groß, Münster: Unrast Verlag, 2007

Essays

literature

  • Melanie Groß, Kathrin Schrader, Tanja Carstensen (eds.): Care | sex | net | work. Feminist Struggles and Criticisms of the Present. Dedicated to Gabriele Winker on the occasion of her 60th birthday, Münster 2016.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Traditional gender order under neoliberal pressure. Changed utilization and reproduction conditions of the labor force. (PDF; 174 kB) In: Melanie Groß, Gabriele Winker (Hrsg.): Queer Feminist Critiques of Neoliberal Conditions. Unrast, Münster 2007, 15–49
personal data
SURNAME Winker, Gabriele
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 5th November 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart