Career and Family Life
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| Free Admission |
| German |
| Ground Floor, Hall 3 |
| Part of: Lecture series “Family Matters” |
Work and family advantages and disadvantages are closely linked, but this relationship varies greatly depending on gender and ethnicity. How strongly do work and family life influence each other? What patterns are typical for black and white men and women in these areas?
In her lecture, the 2023 Kanter Prize winner, Prof Dr Anette Fasang, will present an intersectional perspective on the life course. She will shed light on gender- and ethnically determined combinations of professional and family life from early adulthood to midlife and take a long-term perspective to show how lasting and accumulated disadvantages develop over a period of 20 years.
Participants
Prof. Dr. Anette Fasang (Humboldt University of Berlin, Institute for Social Sciences)
Prof. Dr. Daniel Tyradellis (Humboldt University of Berlin)
Dr. Alia Rayyan (Humboldt University of Berlin)
Dr. Laura Goldenbaum (Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss)
Dr. Anette Fasang is Professor of Microsociology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Director of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Director of the Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences. Before moving to Berlin, she completed her doctorate at Jacobs University Bremen and did postdoctoral research at Yale University and Columbia University. Her research interests include family demography, stratification and life course sociology. She was awarded the prestigious Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research in 2018 and 2023. Her recent work has appeared in leading international journals such as American Journal of Sociology, Demography, Population and Development Review and Sociological Methodology.
Aisenbrey, Silke, and Anette Fasang. “The interplay of work and family trajectories over the life course: Germany and the United States in comparison.” American Journal of Sociology 122, no. 5 (2017): 1448-1484.
Fasang, Anette Eva, and Silke Aisenbrey. “Uncovering social stratification: Intersectional inequalities in work and family life courses by gender and race.” Social Forces 101, no. 2 (2022): 575-605.
Fasang, Anette Eva, Rob J. Gruijters, and Zachary Van Winkle. “The life course boat: A theoretical framework for analyzing variation in family lives across time, place, and social location.” Journal of Marriage and Family (2024).
This lecture is part of the “Beziehungsweise Familie” lecture series, which is the prelude to the Humboldt Forum’s program year for 2025-26, under the same title.
The lecture series is being held as part of a collaboration between all institutions of the Humboldt Forum.
Head Curator for the Programme year 2025-26: Dr. Laura Goldenbaum
