Selected Publications

Stefani, A., Minor, R., Leuze, K., & Strauss, S. (2024). Empirical challenges in assessing the “leaky STEM pipeline”: How the research design affects the measurement of women’s underrepresentation in STEM. International Journal of STEM Education11(1), 54. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40594-024-00512-4

Strauss, S., Brüggemann, O., and Lang, J. (2024). Who Perceives Lower Wages for Women to be Fair? How Perceptions of the Fairness of Men’s and Women’s Wages Vary by Firm and Workplace Characteristics (Working Paper No. 29). Cluster of Excellence “The Politics of Inequality”. https://doi.org/10.48787/kops/352-2-sofyhpevr9ys3

Galos, D.R., Strauss, S. & Hinz, T. Discrimination or a Competitive Climate? Why Women Cannot Translate Their Better High School Grades into University Grades. Res High Educ (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11162-024-09815-5

Bellani, L., Bertogg, A., Kulic, N., Strauß, S. (2024). Does raising awareness about inequality decrease support for school closures? An information treatment survey experiment during the COVID-19 pandemic. Genus 80, 7 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s41118-024-00212-5

Marczuk, A. & Strauß, S. (2023). Does context matter? The gendered impact of study conditions on dropout intentions from higher education. In: Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft (3), 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11618-023-01175-7

Hinz, Thomas; Strauß, Susanne; Stefani, Antje (2023): Was Masterstudiengänge attraktiv macht : Einschätzungen aus Sicht der Studierenden. Forschung & Lehre. Deutscher Hochschulverband. 2023(7), pp. 496-498. ISSN 0945-5604

Stefani, A., Hinz, T., & Strauß, S. (2023). Die Studierendenbefragung in Deutschland: Fokusanalysen zur Attraktivität von Masterstudiengängen. (DZHW Brief 02|2023). Hannover: DZHW. https://doi.org/10.34878/2023.02.dzhw_brief

Galos, D.R., Strauß, S. (2023): Why do women opt for gender-atypical fields of study? The increasing role of income motivation over time. High Educ 85, 795–817. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-022-00866-0, Springer. - ISSN 0018-1560. - eISSN 1573-174X

Haupt Andreas, Strauß Susanne (2022). Long-Term Trends in the Gender Income Gap within Couples: West Germany, 1978–2011, Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, 2022;, jxac019, https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxac019

Meyer, J., Leuze, K. & Strauß, S. (2022). Individual Achievement, Person-Major Fit, or Social Expectations: Why Do Students Switch Majors in German Higher Education?. Res High Educ 63, 222–247. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11162-021-09650-y

Bertogg, Ariane, Kulic, Nevena, Strauß, Susanne (2021): Protected through Part-time Employment? Labor Market Status, Domestic Responsibilities, and the Life Satisfaction of German Women during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, online first, https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxab048

Strauß, Susanne, (2021). Multiple engagement : the relationship between informal care-giving and formal volunteering among Europe's 50+ population. In: Ageing and Society. Cambridge University Press (CUP). 41(7), pp. 1562-1586. ISSN 0144-686X. eISSN 1469-1779. Available under: doi: 10.1017/S0144686X19001764

Bertogg, Ariane, Strauß, Susanne, Vandecasteele, Leen (2020): Linked lives, linked retirement? Relative income differences within couples and gendered retirement decisions in Europe, in: Advances in Life Course Research, online first: https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1c6M03iXoOglDM, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.alcr.2020.100380

Bertogg, Ariane, Nazio,Tiziana, Strauß, Susanne (2020): Work–family balance in the second half of life: Caregivers' decisions regarding retirement and working time reduction in Europe, in: Social Policy & Administration, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12662

Kulic, Nevena, Dotti Sani, Giulia, Strauß, Susanne, Bellani, Luna (2020): Economic Disturbances in the COVID-19 Crisis and their Gendered Impact on Unpaid Activities in Germany and Italy, in: European Societies , online first: https://doi.org/10.1080/14616696.2020.1828974

Bertogg, Ariane, Strauß, Susanne (2020): Spousal care-giving arrangements in Europe. The role of gender, socio-economic status and the welfare state, in: Ageing & Society, Vol. 40(4): 735-758. doi: 10.1017/S0144686X18001320

Meyer Jasmin /Strauß Susanne (2019). The influence of gender composition in a field of study on students’ dropout of higher education, in: European Journal of Education, online first doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/ejed.12357

Strauß, Susanne/Trommer, Kathrin (2018): Productive ageing regimes in Europe: welfare state typologies explaining elderly Europeans' participation in paid and unpaid work.  Journal of Population Ageing, 11 (4), pp. 311-328. DOI: 10.1007/s12062-017-9184-4
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Leuze, Kathrin/Strauß, Susanne (2016): Why do occupations dominated by women pay less? How 'female-typical' work tasks and working-time arrangments affect the gender wage gap among higher education graduates. In: Work, employment and society, vol. 30(5), pp. 802-820.
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Leuze, Kathrin/Strauß, Susanne (2014): Female-Typical Subjects and Their Effect on Wage Inequalities among Higher Education Graduates in Germany. In: European Societies, Vol. 16, No. 2, Special Issue "School-to-Work Transitions", pp. 275-298.
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Strauß, Susanne (2014): Ehrenamt. In: Günter Endruweit/Gisela Trommsdorff/Nicole Burzan (Eds.): Wörterbuch der Soziologie. UTB. Konstanz/München: UVK Verlagsgesellschaft, p. 85.
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Strauß, Susanne/Leuze, Kathrin (2013): Further education of higher education graduates - the more, the better?, in: European Journal of Education, vol. 48 (3), pp.436-453
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Frommert, Dina/Strauß, Susanne (2013): Biografische Einflussfaktoren auf den Gender Pension Gap - ein Kohortenvergleich für Westdeutschland, in: Journal for Labour Market Research, vol. 46 (2), pp.145-166
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Strauß, Susanne/Hillmert, Steffen (2011): Einkommenseinbußen durch Arbeitslosigkeit in Deutschland: Alters- und geschlechtsspezifische Differenzen im Vergleich, in: Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, vol. 36 (4), pp.567-594
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Leuze, Kathrin/Strauß, Susanne (2011): Einkommenseffekte der Weiterbildung von Hochschulabsolventen – der Einfluss von Weiterbildungsquantität und -qualität, in: Beiträge zur Hochschulforschung, vol. 33 (4), pp.36-56
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Strauß, Susanne (2009): Ehrenamt in Deutschland und Großbritannien - Sprungbrett zurück auf den Arbeitsmarkt?, in: Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, vol. 61 (4), pp. 647-670
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Leuze, Kathrin/Strauß, Susanne (2009): Lohnungleichheiten zwischen Akademikerinnen und Akademikern: der Einfluss von fachlicher Spezialisierung, frauendominerten Fächern und beruflicher Segregation, in: Zeitschrift für Soziologie, vol. 38 (4), pp. 262-281
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Strauß, Susanne/Hillmert, Steffen (2008): Beschäftigungsfähigkeit im Alter: Eine bildungs- und familienpolitische Herausforderung, in: Zeitschrift für Sozialreform, vol. 54 (3), pp.251-277
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Strauß, Susanne (2008): Volunteering and Social Inclusion. The Interrelation between Unemployment and Civic Engagement in Germany and Great Britain. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag
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