Review of: Hildegard Maria Nickel, Andreas Heilmann, Hasko Hüning, Max Lill: Geschlechterpolitik in Krisenzeiten. Eine Fallstudie im Bankensektor. Berlin: edition sigma 2015.

Abstract

Using the LandesBank Berlin as an example, the authors illustrate specific effects of the banking crisis on persons operating in companies. The study provides clear evidence of the extent to which these persons (are able to) develop their own rooms for maneuver and of the consistencies exhibited by the company’s gendering processes. The waywardness related to the alteration of gainful employment becomes apparent in the notions of responsibilities of the female employees and in the altered responses towards work-life-balance questions – both in the case of young male employees and older managers, who accuse the young fathers of a change in mentality. Thus, new collectivizations beyond gender could be established if shared interests in critical situations would be built on.