Margret Bürgisser

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Margret Bürgisser , also Margret Bürgisser Schulthess , is a Swiss sociologist , author and entrepreneur . She is known for her contributions to gender roles and family models, especially the egalitarian family model . She is the author of numerous non-fiction books as well as the owner and scientific director of the Institute for Social Research, Analysis and Consulting ISAB in Lucerne .

Career and education

Bürgisser initially worked as a primary and secondary teacher in Aargau and then trained as a program editor for Swiss television . There she worked on programs related to family and education, moderated programs and headed the school television editorial team for four years. In 1977 she started studying social sciences at the University of Zurich , which she graduated with a licentiate in 1984 , after completing a thesis on the professionalization of sociology in Switzerland. She did her doctorate in 1997 at the same university on the subject of egalitarian role sharing.

Bürgisser has headed several national research projects and was the implementation representative of the four-year national research program «Problems of the welfare state» (NRP 45). From 2003 to 2005, within the framework of NRP 52, she worked on a project on the subject of parent couples with egalitarian roles: the long-term perspective and the children's perspective .

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Her research and publication topics include social change and gender equality . A particular focus of her work is on the subject of the egalitarian partnership of part-time working parents, the compatibility of family and career for men and women and the perspective of children in different family models. Further topics of Bürgisser are the activity in old age and the interreligious dialogue .

Bürgisser emphasizes the wish of many fathers to be more involved in the family and less time in their work. She emphasizes that a man tends to be tied to the role of breadwinner by the expectations of the employer, and often also by those of the partner. According to Bürgisser, the observation that the involvement of fathers in bringing up children is demonstrably of essential importance for the development of children, for joint custody and, more generally, for an egalitarian partnership-based division of tasks between men and women. In addition, the commitment of both partners in bringing up children in the event of a separation or divorce represents a suitable basis for joint custody of the parents. If both partners are gainfully employed, they can better secure their existence after separation or divorce. As part of their long-term study, the egalitarian role model was rated largely positively by both parents and children.

Publications

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  • Sharing roles based on partnership - a model for success , September 2017, hep verlag , ISBN 978-3-0355-0725-6 .
  • Remaining parents together: despite separation or divorce. hep Verlag , 2014, ISBN 978-3-0355-0077-6 .
  • Combine work and family - but how? Tell fathers. hep Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-03905-619-4 .
  • Compatibility of work and family - also for men: challenges, problems, possible solutions. hep Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-03905-618-7 .
  • Interreligious Dialogue: Basics - Experiences - Perspectives. hep Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-03905-545-6 .
  • Equal role sharing: experiences and developments over time (with a contribution by Gilbert Ganguillet). Verlag Rüegger , 2006, ISBN 978-3-7253-0856-9 .
  • with Diana Baumgarten: Children in different family forms: What is life like in the egalitarian and the traditional model? Verlag Rüegger, 2006, ISBN 978-3-7253-0855-2 .
  • Still fully involved: How people stay active in old age. Orell Füssli , 2006, ISBN 978-3-280-05189-4 .
  • Woman and career. Swiss Employers' Association , 2003, ISBN 3-9522899-0-6 .
  • Crime scene secretariat, lots of old wine in new bottles ...? A case study of the changing tasks and qualification requirements in the secretariat. Edition Soziothek, 2000, ISBN 3-905596-40-7 .
  • Ängeli Bängeli: a youth in Switzerland. Edition Heuwinkel, 2000, ISBN 3-906410-34-X .
  • Combine work and family. Info paper No. 13, Swiss Commercial Association, 2000.
  • Whoever shares wins! Partnership-based division of roles in family and work (media combination: accompanying material for the video series). Verlag Sauerländer , 1999, ISBN 3-7941-4576-3 .
  • Like you to me, so I to you ...: Conditions and limits of the egalitarian division of roles in the family. Verlag Rüegger, 1998, ISBN 978-3-7253-0584-1 .
  • Half-half model: partnership-based division of labor in family and work. Werd-Verlag, Zurich 1996, ISBN 3-85932-198-6 .
  • with Christian Graf-Zumsteg (Red.): Global learning in Switzerland: A study on the status, expectations and perspectives of global learning in Switzerland. Forum «School for One World», Jona 1995, ISBN 3-908031-17-6 .
  • Between home and no man's land: On the image of the city in the Swiss feature film from 1970–1990 (with a contribution by Pierre Lachat). Swiss National Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research, Zurich, Dept. National Research Programs, NRP City and Transport , Report 17, 1992, ISBN 3-907118-05-7 .
  • with Andrea Fritz: Sociologists in Switzerland. Special issue "Sociology - Sociologists in Switzerland" of the bulletin of the Swiss Association for Political Science and the Swiss Society for Sociology , Neuchâtel / Zurich March 1983.
Articles and interviews

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Portrait of Margret Bürgisser. ISAB, accessed August 30, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Research Reports . ISAB, accessed August 30, 2017 .
  3. ^ NRP 45 «Problems of the welfare state». SNSF , accessed on August 30, 2017 .
  4. ↑ NRP 52 “Childhood, Youth and Generational Relationships in Social Change”. SNSF, accessed on August 30, 2017 .
  5. ^ NRP 52, Childhood, Youth and Generational Relationships in Social Change. In: nfp52.ch. Retrieved August 30, 2017 .
  6. ↑ a b Project Bürgisser: Parents with an egalitarian division of roles: The long-term perspective and the children's perspective (in NRP 52 “Childhood, Youth and Intergenerational Relationships in Social Change”). Retrieved August 30, 2017 .
  7. ↑ a b Fathers have to reduce fears (in an interview with Andreas Bättig). In: Lucerne newspaper . No. 238, October 14, 2011, p. 41.
  8. ↑ Everywhere we see powerful managers running young models. (in an interview with Mathias Morgenthaler). In: Tages-Anzeiger . September 8, 2011, accessed August 30, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Margret Bürgisser: Fathers in an egalitarian partnership - requirements, opportunities, difficulties, effects . In: Heinz Walter, father, who are you? In search of the "sufficiently good" father. Klett-Cotta, 2008, ISBN 978-3-608-89067-9 , pp. 98-123.
personal data
SURNAME Burgisser, Margret
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bürgisser Schulthess, Margret
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss non-fiction author, sociologist and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century