Gudrun Eger-Harsch

Gudrun Eger-Harsch (born June 23, 1940 in Berlin ) is a German social scientist .

Life

Gudrun Eger-Harsch received her doctorate in sociology from the LMU Munich in 1974 with a thesis on family planning in Islamic societies. This was preceded by a long research stay in Pakistan and Afghanistan .

From 1978 to 1983 she worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Sociology at the Technical University of Berlin . Her work focused on economic and population sociology as well as theories and analyzes of social change in industrialized and developing countries. From 1985 to 1987 she worked on the DFG project “Life courses and career orientations of professional groups of the 'petty bourgeoisie'” at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich.

In 1991, together with doctors and social scientists, she founded the development aid organization “ Lebenschancen International e. V ”, of which she is the 1st chairwoman and project manager to this day. With the support of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, the organization has now financed seven women's and youth health and education centers in five developing countries (in Benin, Burkina Faso, Nepal, Paraguay, Togo) and continues to carry out projects there and in Peru.

From 1993 to 1995, on behalf of the German Music Council, she worked with Peter Linzenkirchner to analyze the effects of the music competitions “ Jugend musiziert ”.

From 1995 to 1997 she carried out analyzes of infant and maternal mortality and the relationship between economic growth and health expenditure for the “ Health Report for Germany ” of the Federal Statistical Office .

Publications (selection)

• "A KAP ( Knowledge, Attitudes and Practice of Family Planning ) and Fertility Study of the Women of Kabul / Afghanistan", German Academy for Population Science, Academy Publications Series A, No. 12, Hamburg 1969
• “The Effects of Religious and Social Traditional Conditions on the Population Policy Situation in Pakistan”, Berlin: Institute for Sociology, 1971
• "Family planning programs or change in socio-economic conditions? - Review of a prognosis about the possibilities and limits of family planning programs using the example of Pakistan in the former borders ”(including what is now Bangladesh), dissertation, Saarbrücken: Breitenbach, 1975
• "On the Relationship between Socio-Economic Factors and Population Growth - Paper to the World Population Conference, Bucharest 1974", International Development Review, Vol. 18, No. 1, 1976
• Factors influencing and preventing birth control in Kabul / Afghanistan, in: SSIP Bulletin, No. 43, Social Science Study Group for International Problems, Basel 1976
• The Comilla cooperative program for rural development in Bangladesh, Saarbrücken: Breitenbach, 1982
• “Was Malthus right after all?” On the 150th anniversary of the death of Thomas Malthus, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, February 27, 1985, no. 49.
• "High school graduates: experiences, orientations and perspectives of two generations in school, work and society", Essen: Verlag Die Blaue Eule, 1989
• “Value orientations and behavioral patterns in older cohorts of selected occupational groups of the 'petty bourgeoisie'”, in: Helmut Klages u. a. (Ed.): Values ​​and Change - Results and Methods of a Research Tradition, Frankfurt / New York: Campus, 1992
• “Better Access to Family Planning for all - The Obstacles of Its Implementation”, lecture at the NGO forum of the “International Conference on Population and Development”, Cairo 1994, in: International Women's News, Vol. 4, 1994
• "Good grades with critical comments: Impact analysis of the competitions" Jugend musiziert "1984 to 1993", together with Peter Linzenkirchner as first author, Bonn: Deutscher Musikrat, 1995
• Chapter “Infant mortality” and “Economic development” in: Federal Statistical Office (Ed.): Health report for Germany, Stuttgart: Metzler-Poeschel, 1998

Web links

• "Wasn't Malthus right?"
• International life chances