Institute of Sociology

Dr Philipp, Marie-Fleur

Research associate

Marie-Fleur Philipp
Office

Hölderlinstr. 29, room 303
72074 Tübingen
Email: marie-fleur.philippspam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de

Office hours
by email appointment.
Office hours are held in Room 104, Hegelbau.

Short biography

2020 - 2024
Doctoral Candidate at the Department of Sociology, University of Tübingen

Title: „Family policies, gender ideologies and normative support for gendered work-care arrangements. Evidence from two survey experiments in Germany“ (summa cum laude)

Dissertation Award from the DGS Social Policy Section

since 2020
Research associate at the Department of Sociology, University of Tübingen

DFG-Project “Family policy information, gender ideologies and normative judgements of the gender division of labour” (2020-2023)

DFG-Project “Romantic relationships of adolescents and young adults: Reproducing gendered ideologies and identities?” (since 07/24)

2018 - 2020
Master of Arts Sociology with a Focus on Empirical Research, University of Tuebingen

Master’s thesis: “Gender Socialisation Across Diverse Family Structures: The Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Ideologies from Parents to Children”

2015 - 2018
Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, University of Wien

Research interests

  • Family demography
  • Gender relations and the family
  • Family policy
  • Social inequalities

Peer-reviewed journal articles

Philipp, M.-F., Büchau, S., Schober, P.S., Werner, V. & Spiess, C.K. (2025): How perceived daycare quality shapes norms around daycare use and parental employment: experimental evidence from Germany, European Sociological Review, Online First. https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf009

Philipp, M.-F., (2024): Multiple dimensions of gender ideologies: How they relate to normative judgements of the gender division of parental leave, Social Politics, 31(2): 404-428. https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxae004

Büchau, Silke, Philipp, M.-F., Schober, Pia S., and Spiess, C. Katharina (2023): Day care availability and awareness of gendered economic risks: How they shape work and care norms, Journal of European Social Policy, 34(1): 53-68 https://doi.org/10.1177/09589287231219215

Philipp, M.-F., Büchau, Silke, & Schober, Pia S. (2023): Who should scale back? Experimental evidence on employer support for part-time employment and working hours norms for couples with young children, Social Politics, 31(3): 531-557. https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxad034
Nominated for the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research

Philipp, M.-F., Büchau, S., Schober, P.S., Spiess, C.K. (2023): Parental leave policies, usage consequences and changing normative beliefs: Evidence from a survey experiment. Gender & Society, 37(4): 493-523. https://doi.org/10.1177/0891243223117608

Philipp, M.-F.; Gambaro, Ludovica; Schober Pia (2022): Breaking with traditions? How parental separation affects adolescents’ gender ideologies in the UK. Journal of Family Studies 29(5): 2173-2194. https://doi.org/10.1080/13229400.2022.2153723

Other publications

Philipp, M.-F., Büchau, S., Schober, P.S., Werner, V., Spiess, C.K. (2024): How daycare quality shapes norms around daycare use and parental employment: Experimental Evidence from Germany. IZA Discussion Paper No. 16729, https://docs.iza.org/dp16729.pdf.  

Philipp, M.-F., Büchau, S., Schober, P.S., Werner, V., Spiess, C.K. (2024): How daycare quality shapes norms around daycare use and parental employment: Experimental Evidence from Germany. BiB Working Paper 01/2024, https://www.bib.bund.de/Publikation/2024/How-daycare-quality-shapes-norms-around-daycare-use-and-parental-employment-Experimental-evidence-from-Germany.html?nn=1219476.

Philipp, M.-F., Büchau, S., Schober, P.S., Spiess, C.K. (2023): Changing minds: Can information about parental leave contribute to changes in beliefs about the division of parental leave?, Gender & Society Blog, https://gendersociety.wordpress.com/2023/06/30/changing-minds-can-information-about-parental-leave-contribute-to-changes-in-beliefs-about-the-gendered-division-of-parental-leave/

Büchau, S., Philipp, M.-F., Schober, P.S., Spiess, C.K. (2022): Day Care Availability and Awareness of Gendered Economic Risks: How They Shape Work and Care Norms. BiB Working Paper 7/2022, https://www.bib.bund.de/Publikation/2022/Day-care-availability-and-awareness-of-gendered-economic-risks-How-they-shape-work-and-care-norms.html?nn=1219476.

Schober, P.S., Büchau, S., Philipp, M.-F., Spiess, C.K., Bozoyan, C., Schmiedeberg, C. (2022): The Factorial Survey Experiment on “Normative Judgements of Work-Care Arrangements” in the German Family Panel. pairfam Technical Paper No. 19. https://doi.org/10.5282/ubm/epub.92001

Book chapters

Philipp, M.-F., Schober, P.S. (2025): Wie wirkt Elternzeit- und Elterngeldpolitik auf die Normen der Erwerbsarbeit und Kinderbetreuung? In: Hassel, A., Schroder, W. (Eds) Was wird aus der Arbeit?, Fankfurt/New York: Campus Verlag, pp.113-117. https://www.campus.de/buecher-campus-verlag/wissenschaft/politikwissenschaft/was_wird_aus_der_arbeit-18483.html?srsltid=AfmBOopLj_LKjV3wbUi4LTb3clcchEjzuEgWBo4PpSmMeWOanqUoAZ2z

Presentations

2025:

  • Welche Rolle spielt die Vereinbarkeit von Beruf und Familie für Einstellungen zur geschlechtsspezifischen Arbeitsteilung? [How does work-family reconciliation affect attitudes regarding the gender division of labour?] (invited presentation), Gleichstellungsforum von HSI und WSI der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, Berlin, 25.-26.02.2025
  • Exploring the couple norm from a life course perspective. Relationship beliefs across relationship formation and dissolution transitions in Europe, International Community, Work & Family Conference, Bielefeld, 26-28.03.2025.
  • Unpacking work-care arrangements of families with young children in Germany. The role of attitudes toward maternal employment and use of external childcare, International Community, Work & Family Conference, Bielefeld, 26-28.03.2025.
  • Exploring the couple norm from a life course perspective. Relationship beliefs across relationship transitions in Europe, European Consortium for Sociological Research Conference, Cologne, 03.-05.09.2025.
  • When is the child old enough? How beliefs about appropriate child age for mothers’ return to work relate to maternal employment in Germany, European Consortium for Sociological Research Conference, Cologne, 03.-05.09.2025.
  • Gradational gender identification across European gender regimes, Conference of the Academy of Sociology, Mainz, 08-10.10.2025.

2024:

  • Day care quality and work-care norms: Experimental evidence from Germany, Social Norms Conference, Ascona, 07-10.07.2024
  • How Daycare Quality Shapes Norms around Daycare Use and Parental Employment: Experimental Evidence from Germany, European Consortium for Sociological Research, Barcelona, 12-14.09.2024

2023:

  • Day-care quality and work-care norms: Experimental evidence from Germany, DGS family sociology spring conference (online), 02.-03.03.2023
  • Day-care quality and work-care norms: Experimental evidence from Germany, ECSR, Collegio Carlo Alberto and NASP Joint Spring School on Changing Families and Social Inequality over the Life Course, Turin, 27.-30.03.2023
  • Multiple dimensions of gender ideologies: How they relate to normative judgements of the division of parental leave, Internal Seminar of the Social Policy Unit at the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University, 17.05.2023
  • Day-care quality and work-care norms: Experimental evidence from Germany, The European Network for Social Policy Analysis Conference, Warsaw, 07.-09.09.2023 [cancelled due to illness]
  • Multiple dimensions of gender ideologies: How they relate to normative judgements of the division of parental leave (poster presentation), European Consortium for Sociological Research Conference, Prague, 18-20.09.2023

2022:

  • Parental leave, take-up consequences and changing normative beliefs: Evidence from a survey experiment, Annual Seminar of the International Network for Leave Policies and Research, New York, 21./22.06.2022    
  • Who should scale back? Experimental evidence on employer support for part-time employment and working hours norms for couples with young children (poster presentation), European Consortium of Sociological Research Conference, Amsterdam, 06.-08.07.2022
  • Parental leave and day-care policy, take-up consequences and changing normative beliefs: Evidence from two survey experiments, Wittgenstein Centre Colloquium, Vienna, 06.09.2022
  • Who should scale back? Experimental evidence on employer support for part-time employment and working hours norms for couples with young children, The European Network for Social Policy Analysis Conference, Vienna, 14.-16.09.2022
  • Who should scale back? Experimental evidence on employer support for part-time employment and working hours norms for couples with young children, 41st Congress of the German Sociological Association, Bielefeld, 26.-30.09.2022
  • Breaking with traditions? How parental separation affects adolescents’ gender ideologies in the UK, Conference in Intergenerational Inequalities and the Contemporary Family Setup, Bremen, 21-11.11.2022

2021:

  • The effects of information about parental leave on normative judgements of the division of leave in Germany, Internal colloquium of the Department of Education and Family at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), August 2021
  • The effects of information about parental leave on normative judgements of the division of leave in Germany, The European Network for Social Policy Analysis Online Conference 31-08.-03.09.2021
  • The effects of information about parental leave on normative judgements of the division of leave in Germany, European Consortium of Sociological Research Online Conference, 07./08.10.2021

 

Teaching experience

B.A. Seminar ‘Family forms and social change’  summer term 2021, 2022, 2025 and winter term 2022/23

B.A. Seminar „Soziologisch Denken“ winter term 2024/25, 2025/26