Heike Trappe

Heike Trappe (born November 22, 1966 in Berlin ) is a German sociologist .

Trappe studied sociology at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1985 to 1990 (title of the diploma thesis: Social characteristics of intelligence in their influence on the reproductive behavior of this social class ). In 1994 she did her doctorate at the Free University of Berlin (title of the dissertation : Self-employment - Pragmatism - Subordination. Women in the GDR between work, family and social policy ). She then did a research fellowship as a postdoctoral fellow at the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill , USA . In 2003 he received a research fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University in Cambridge (Massachusetts) . Trappe completed his habilitation in 2006 at the Free University of Berlin (title of the habilitation thesis: It depends on the context: Gender inequality in the employment system - a German / German comparison before and after reunification ). Since 2007 she has been professor of sociology with a focus on family demography at the University of Rostock .

Her main research interests are: social inequality and gender , life course, family and labor market research, comparative studies on gender and the welfare state .

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Editor and co-author

• as editor with Hella Ehlers, Heike Kahlert , Gabriele Linke, Dorit Raffel and Beate Rudlof: Gender difference - and no end? Social sciences and humanities contributions to gender research (= gender discussion. 8). Lit, Berlin et al. 2009, ISBN 978-3-8258-1647-6 .

Web links

• Literature about Heike Trappe in the state bibliography MV
• Personal homepage at the University of Rostock
• Publications
• Entry on Heike Trappe in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium