Concluded Research Project
At the centre of the project "When women become family
breadwinners: On the significance and construction of gender/identities
in families with female heads of households in the context of the
precarization of working and living conditions" focuses on families in
which, as a result of precarization, working women have become the main
breadwinners and thus take over a function that was previously -
according to traditional understanding - assigned to the male part.
Specifically, we will investigate whether and how this change of
arrangement irritates the construction of gender identities, whether and
how norms of recognition in the couple's relationship are thus
renegotiated, and finally whether and how the traditional concepts of
femininity and masculinity are reconfigured or reaffirmed. Asking this
question, the proposed project is located in the rather young area of
precarity research, but bridges to questions within gender and family
research.
