Box: 26
Phone: +49 7531 88-3952
Room: F 514
Email: Susanne.Strauss@uni-konstanz.de
Office hours
Office hours during semester break:
27 February 2023 / 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
13 March 2023 / 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
03 April 2023 / 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Registration via email.
Research interests
The Working Group „Sociology with a Focus on Gender Studies“ concentrates on the following topics in research and teaching: 1) gender inequalities in the labour market and educational system; 2) cross-country comparisons regarding the division of labour between couples in paid employment and unpaid work (i.e. care work at home or volunteering in the community).
Publications
Haupt Andreas, Strauß Susanne (2022). Long-Term Trends in the Gender Income Gap within Couples: West Germany, 1978–2011, Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, 2022;, jxac019, https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxac019
Galos, Diana Roxana, Strauss, Susanne (2022). Why do women opt for gender-atypical fields of study? The increasing role of income motivation over time. Higher Education, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-022-00866-0
Bertogg, Ariane, Kulic, Nevena, Strauss, Susanne (2021): Protected through Part-time Employment? Labor Market Status, Domestic Responsibilities, and the Life Satisfaction of German Women during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, online first, https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxab048
Meyer, Jasmin, Leuze, Kathrin, Strauß, Susanne (2021): Individual Achievement, Person-Major Fit, or Social Expectations: Why Do Students Switch Majors in German Higher Education?, in: Research in Higher Education, online first, doi: 10.1007/s11162-021-09650-y
Strauß, Susanne, (2021). Multiple engagement : the relationship between informal care-giving and formal volunteering among Europe's 50+ population. In: Ageing and Society. Cambridge University Press (CUP). 41(7), pp. 1562-1586. ISSN 0144-686X. eISSN 1469-1779. Available under: doi: 10.1017/S0144686X19001764
Bertogg, Ariane, Strauß, Susanne, Vandecasteele, Leen (2020): Linked lives, linked retirement? Relative income differences within couples and gendered retirement decisions in Europe, in: Advances in Life Course Research, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.alcr.2020.100380
Bertogg, Ariane, Nazio,Tiziana, Strauß, Susanne (2020): Work–family balance in the second half of life: Caregivers' decisions regarding retirement and working time reduction in Europe, in: Social Policy & Administration, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12662
Kulic, Nevena, Dotti Sani, Giulia, Strauß, Susanne, Bellani, Luna (2020): Economic Disturbances in the COVID-19 Crisis and their Gendered Impact on Unpaid Activities in Germany and Italy, in: European Societies , online first: https://doi.org/10.1080/14616696.2020.1828974
Bertogg, Ariane, Strauß, Susanne (2020): Spousal care-giving arrangements in Europe. The role of gender, socio-economic status and the welfare state, in: Ageing & Society, Vol. 40(4): 735-758. doi: 10.1017/S0144686X18001320
Strauß, Susanne (2019). Multiple engagement: The relationship between informal care-giving and formal volunteering among Europe's 50 population. Ageing and Society, 1-25. doi: 10.1017/S0144686X19001764
Meyer Jasmin /Strauß Susanne (2019). The influence of gender composition in a field of study on students’ dropout of higher education, in: European Journal of Education, online first doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/ejed.12357
Strauß, Susanne/Trommer, Kathrin (2018): Productive ageing regimes in Europe: welfare state typologies explaining elderly Europeans' participation in paid and unpaid work. Journal of Population Ageing, 11 (4), pp. 311-328. DOI: 10.1007/s12062-017-9184-4
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Leuze, Kathrin/Strauß, Susanne (2016): Why do occupations dominated by women pay less? How 'female-typical' work tasks and working-time arrangments affect the gender wage gap among higher education graduates. In: Work, employment and society, vol. 30(5), pp. 802-820 ⇒ LINK KOPS Uni Konstanz
Leuze, Kathrin/Strauß, Susanne (2014): Female-Typical Subjects and Their Effect on Wage Inequalities among Higher Education Graduates in Germany. In: European Societies, vol. 16, No. 2, Special Issue "School-to-Work Transitions", pp. 275-298. ⇒ LINK KOPS Uni Konstanz
Strauß, Susanne (2014): Ehrenamt. In: Günter Endruweit/Gisela Trommsdorff/Nicole Burzan (Eds.): Wörterbuch der Soziologie. UTB. Konstanz/München: UVK Verlagsgesellschaft, p. 85. ⇒ LINK KOPS Uni Konstanz
Strauß, Susanne/Leuze, Kathrin (2013): Further education of higher education graduates - the more, the better?, in: European Journal of Education, vol. 48 (3), pp.436-453 ⇒ LINK KOPS Uni Konstanz
Frommert, Dina/Strauß, Susanne (2013): Biografische Einflussfaktoren auf den Gender Pension Gap - ein Kohortenvergleich für Westdeutschland, in: Journal for Labour Market Research, vol. 46 (2), pp.145-166 ⇒ LINK KOPS Uni Konstanz
Employment
10/2014 - present
Professor for Sociology with a Focus on Gender Studies (W3), University of Konstanz
04-09/2014
Principle investigator of the DFG funded project on: Productive Ageing in Europe: The importance of waged work, family work and volunteering, Berlin Social Science Center (WZB)
03/2007 – 03/2014
Researcher/assistant professor of sociology at the Institute of Sociology, University of Tuebingen
04-09/2013
Substitute junior professor of demography, Humboldt University Berlin
10/2012 – 03/2013
Guest researcher at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), Research Unit German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP)
Education
2007
PhD in Sociology (Dr. rer. pol.) at the Graduate School of Social Sciences (GSSS), University of Bremen, Germany
2003
M.A. (Diplom) of Psychology, University of Hamburg, Germany
2002
MSc of Social Psychology, London School of Economics and Political Sciences (LSE), Great Britain
Scholarships and awards
2005
Marie Curie Fellowship, Centre for Comparative Research in Social Welfare, University of Stirling, UK
2004
German Student Award “Market Myth? The Economic, Legal and Social Organization of the World of Work” of the Körber Foundation (2nd place), Hamburg, Germany
2003–2007
PhD scholarship Hans Böckler Foundation
1995–2003
Student scholarship Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst