I am a research fellow at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES). My current research interests include the historical political economy of gender, with a regional focus on Europe and work-family challenges in the Global South.

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In my Habilitation project, I examine the origins of women's economic and social rights in advanced capitalist societies, tracing the socio-economic and political factors that historically shaped state governance of women's labor from the late 19th to the mid-20th century. My single-authored papers, published in Comparative Political Studies, Journal of European Public Policy, and Journal of Social Policy, provide novel evidence of women's significant political influence on gender policymaking under specific institutional settings and political landscapes. They demonstrate that the descriptive representation of women in parliaments helped shape the contours of women's social rights shortly after women attained suffrage. Related works explore the political interests of female parliamentarians, women's movements, and female voters, as well as their strategies for advocating gender policies in the early 20th century.

 

For the research project "Pathways to Family Policy Universalism: Coverage and Generosity of Family Policies in a Global Perspective," part of the Collaborative Research Center 1342 (CRC 1342) “Global Dynamics of Social Policy,” I built two historical databases that capture maternity, paternity, and parental leave policies in 165 countries from 1883 to 2018. I am currently preparing a proposal for the follow-up project, "Work-Family Policies: Socio-Economic Outcomes and Policy Learning," as Principal Investigator. This project will evaluate the impact of family policies on alleviating work-family challenges faced by women workers in the Global South, utilizing my databases.

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I hold a Ph.D. from the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS). I previously visited the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies and is currently a visiting scholar at Sciences Po, Paris.