DigiGap: The Gender and Generational Gap in Professions with Digitalized (AI) Activities
DigiGap examines whether digital and AI technologies improve or hinder the reconciliation of work and private life, and for whom. The project focuses on women, families and older employees. Digital technologies can raise working time demands, but they also offer potential for better work-life compatibility, for example through shorter working hours, job and top sharing, or easier organisation of family life.
Three sub-projects look at gender as a central structuring category, at partnerships and families, and at age in intersection with gender. The aim is to identify which workplace conditions allow all employees, regardless of gender and age, to benefit from digitalisation.
DigiGap is a collaboration between the Institute of Economic and Social Research (WSI) of the Hans Böckler Foundation and Bielefeld University. For more information visit our website.
