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Prof. Dr. Friederike Maier

Department of Business and Economics
Professorship for Economics, specialising in Distribution and Social Policy
Director of the Harriet Taylor Mill Institute for Economics and Gender Studies

T: +49 (0)30 30877-1004
F: +49 (0)30 30877-1009
E: friemaie@hwr-berlin.de


Visitor's address
Schöneberg Campus
Building A
Room 2.51
Badensche Straße 52
10825 Berlin

Postal address
Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht Berlin
Schöneberg Campus
Badensche Straße 52
10825 Berlin
Germany

 

Academic and Professional Career

  • since 1992: Professor at the Berlin School of Economics and Law (BSEL) (formerly Berlin School of Economics (BSE))
  • 1980-1992: Research assistant / project leader at the Social Science Research Center Berlin in the department “Job Market and Employment”
  • 1987: Doctorate (Dr. rer. pol.) at the FU Berlin
  • 1978: Diploma in Economics at the FU Berlin

Key Aspects of practise

  • Research and consultancy in the fields of labour market policy and employment policy
  • Social policy
  • Economics and Gender

International contacts (e. g.)

  • German expert in the European Commission’s Network “Gender and Employment” (1992-2012); regular expert studies in this field, including studies on remuneration, working hours, labour market policy and the compatibility of family and job
  • Expert for the European Commission - Directorate-General V (Employment and Social Affairs), expert studies on inter alia the significance of wage on-costs for employment policy and the development of the labour market following completion of the single European market; expert for the OECD (field of labour market and social policy)
  • Member and deputy chair (1990-1996) of SAMF (Society for Social Scientific Labour Market Research)
  • Member of the European Association of Labour Economists (EALE), Verein für Socialpolitik (VfS), and of the International Association of Feminist Economists (IAFFE)
  • Joint research work with colleagues from the DIW (German Institute for Economic Research), the Social Science Research Center Berlin, the former FHTW Berlin, the University of Manchester, the University of Utrecht and with the representatives for women’s rights and equal opportunities in various enterprises and public authorities
  • Founding member of efas (Economics, Feminism and Science) – the network for female economists

Expert for

  • Labour market policy
  • Social policy
  • Gender Relations and Economy (labour market, social security, gender-specific aspects in Economics and the Social Sciences

Key Aspects in Teaching

  • Allocation (processes and controlling tools)
  • Distribution theory and policy
  • Labour market theory and policy
  • Macroeconomic aspects of women’s labour
  • Economic theory and gender relations
  • Structural change of the economy and labour market
  • Managing Diversity
  • Gender and Globalisation

Research Projects and Fields

  • 2011/2012: Towards a European Gender Equality Index
    Project with Prof. Dr. Janneke Plantenga, University of Utrecht und Prof. Dr. Colette Fagan, University of Manchester for the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) in Vilnius
  • Until 2011 Member of the European Commission’s Expert Group on Gender and Employment (EGGE)
    German expert with Dr. Andrea-Hilla Carl in a EU-funded network of 30 experts from 30 countries; the network is coordinated by Professor Francesca Bettio, University of Siena, and managed by the Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini, Rome
  • 2009/2010: Macroeconomic Development and Gender Relations
    Joint research project with Prof. Dr. Brigitte Young, Professor Diane Elson and Isabella Bakker

Selected, current Publications

  • Ist Vollbeschäftigung für Männer und Frauen möglich?, in: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, 62- Jhg., 14-15/2012. 2.4.2012. S. 45-52
  • Gender Accounting – Eine methodisch-empirische Bestandsaufnahme und konzeptionelle Annäherung, gemeinsam mit Julia Schneider und Miriam Beblo, Discussion Paper des Harriet Taylor Mill-Instituts, Nr. 15, 09/2011
  • Die aktuelle Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise - Perspektiven für die Geschlechterpolitik der EU:in: Margret Krannich / Susanne Rauscher/Mechthild Veil (Hrsg.), Das gefühlte und das proklamierte Europa, Impulse und Barrieren der europäischen Genderpolitik, Jahrbuch der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Hessen, Klartext Verlag Essen, 2011, S. 79 - 90
  • Wirtschaftskrise in Europa - Negative Folgen für die Geschlechterpolitik, in: Frau geht vor - Infobrief Nr. 1, 2011, DGB-Bundesvorstand, S. 14-16
  • Will the Crisis Change Gender Relations in Labor Markets and Society?, in: Journal of Contemporary European Studies, Vol. 19, No.1, March 2011, pp. 83-95
  • Macroeconomics Regimes in OECD Countries and the Interrelation with Gender Orders, In: Brigitte Young, Isabella Bakker and Diane Elson (eds.), Questioning Financial Governance from a Feminist Perspective, Routledge, IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics, London/New York, 2011, pp. 11-37
  • Re-cession or He-cession - gender dimensions of economic crisis and economic policy, in : Andreas Botsch / Andrew Watt (eds.) After the crisis: towards a sustainable growth model. ETUI Brüssel, 2010, pp. 79 – 83
  • Die wirtschaftspolitischen Leitlinien der Europäischen Union – eine feministische Kritik, in: Christine Bauhardt / Gülay Caglar (Hrsg.), Gender and Economics. Feministische Kritik der politischen Ökonomie, VS Verlag Wiesbaden, 2010, S. 233-257
  • The Berlin School of Economics as active part of the regional development, in: Susanne Meyer / Bernd Pfeiffer (Hrsg.), Die gute Hochschule. Ideen, Konzepte und Perspektiven – Festschrift für Franz Herbert Rieger, edition sigma, Berlin, 2010, S.383- 400 (zusammen mit Annette Fleck)
  • Gender Mainstreaming in Employment Policies in Germany, Discussion Paper des Harriet Taylor Mill-Instituts 08, 12/2009, 49 Seiten (mit Elisabeth Botsch)
  • Gender-Aspekte der Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise – Frauen profitieren wenig von den Konjunkturprogrammen, in: Ministerium für Arbeit, Soziales, Gesundheit Familie und Frauen Rheinland Pfalz, gleichberechtigt, Heft 2/2009, S. 6-7
  • Gender Segregation in the Labour Market – Roots causes, implications and policy responses in the EU, European Commission, Publication Office of the European Union, 2009, 111 Seiten (Veröffentlichung des Expertinnennetzwerk Employment and Gender Equality)