Research Activities at the Centre
Two projects are carried out under the responsibility of members of FraGes that are funded by a governmental program for gender research (HWP):
“The Administration of Prostitution: Saxony-Poland-Czech Republic”: (Prof. Dr. Monika Wahlrab-Sahr, Faculty of Theology; Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Fach, Dr. Rebecca Pates, and Daniel Schmidt, Faculty of Social Science and Philosophy)
“Elisa – Promotion of Elites in Saxony: Women in Natural Science, Engineering and Medicine” (Prof. Dr. Elmar Brähler, Faculty of Medicine, Prof. Dr. Dorothee Alfermann, Faculty of Sport Science):
The main aim of the project is to encourage and support gifted female students of natural science, engineering and medicine to pursue an academic career or/and to take over leadership positions in their careers. The project is a cooperative endeavour of six universities/polytechnics in Saxony. The female participants in the project are offered mentoring, workshops, and coaching sessions. A summary of the papers, together with information on other research activities of the Centre may be found in a report on the Centre's homepage (www.uni-leipzig.de/~frages).
The Centre has about 45 members (a quarter of them male) of various nationality, belonging to a wide variety of disciplines: the cultural sciences, art history, history, philology, languages, music, sociology, psychology, economics and medicine. The research conducted by members of the Centre may be grouped under three main headings:
a) A number of topics relate to identity - e.g. artistic identity, identity of women writers, images of the body, physical self-view, gender roles.
b) A second group of research projects relates to gender differences. Are there differences between the sexes which are significant for everyday behaviour, employment prospects, family work?
c) A third set of topics is concerned with the fact that many aspects of gender relations have their roots in our culture.
d) Fourth, our research includes topics relating specifically to women, like psychosocial aspects of menopause or the stigmatizing of women in the history of medicine.
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