Irem Güney-Frahm works primarily on questions of gender equality and globalization, international development, digitalization, and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. She has studied economics, European studies and gender studies in Istanbul, Bath and Berlin. As one of our Stiftung Südtiroler Sparkasse Global Fellows, she will shed light on digitalisation as a social transformation from a gender perspective.

The widespread use of information and communication technologies (ICT) and digitalisation, accelerated not least by the Covid-19 pandemic, are changing our world. This societal change affects people differently depending on their gender, social status, ethnicity and/or physical and mental health. This lecture therefore takes a gender- and diversity-sensitive perspective and looks at the new opportunities and challenges that arise with the transformation process. For example, does e-government facilitate access to public life for women and men equally? To what extent do online educational opportunities promote participation in the labour market and in society from a gender perspective? How can digitalisation contribute to a more equitable distribution of unpaid work in the household? The lecture conceptualises this social change on three levels, the individual, community and societal level, shows the gender-related changes on each level and discusses them from a critical perspective using examples from the global North and South.

Public Lecture

Brave new world – the digital transformation process from a gender perspective

23.06.2022 | 11.00 CET