Gender and intersectionality in nursing and health care practice

In the context of the workshop, the Frankfurt CareOrg team discussed together with experts from different disciplines, such as nursing science, sociology, care research, health science and gender research, how nursing and care work is reflected in gender research and which gender aspects are relevant for nursing and health research. The Frankfurt team presented its research about the organized care mobility from and within Central and Eastern Europe with a focus on Poland as a receiving, sending and transit country and Germany as a receiving country of migrant care workers. Further questions explored during the workshop were: How does the gaze on professional self-image, gender constructions and hierarchies in the gender arrangement change when we intertwine nursing action and care in relation to gender? What perspectives can be found beyond the debate about the female domain in nursing? Which intersections with other categories of inequality (race, disability, class) become visible? What role do the intersections between care, work and (transnational) mobility play? How can these perspectives contribute to the debate on care work in society?