Biography

Maik Hamjediers’s primary research interests lie in social stratification, gender inequalities in the labour market and domestic sphere, and the methodologies of empirical social research. He is interested in understanding barriers to achieving a more equitable workforce, including cultural expectations surrounding gender and how these intersect with further layers of social stratification. In his dissertation, he analysed entries, experiences, and exits of individuals working in gender-atypical occupations to improve our understanding of how to alleviate occupational segregation and its consequences.
Maik is finishing his PhD in Sociology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where he also obtained a BA and MA degree in Social Sciences. Previously, he was a visiting graduate student at Brown University and a visiting fellow at Haifa University. As a Max Weber Fellow at the EUI, Maik will build on his research on occupational segregation by taking a comparative perspective on men’s likelihood of working in female-typed occupations across time and countries, as well as by exploring how occupational sex segregation intersects with segregation by nativity status.
Maik has extensive teaching experience in quantitative research methods. He has delivered the mandatory undergraduate lecture in Statistics at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and has taught various method seminars independently, as a co-teacher, and as a teaching assistant.

Mentor

• Herman G. Van De Werfhorst

Mentor

• Juho Härkönen

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