Hildegard Maria Nickel
About
Hildegard Maria Nickel is a German sociologist and feminist who has specialized in the sociology of work and gender studies. From 1977, she was attached to the East-German Academy of Pedagogical Sciences becoming a full professor at the Institute for Social Sciences at Humboldt University, Berlin, from 1992 until her retirement in 2014. In 1994, she received the Helge Pross Prize from the University of Siegen for her contributions to family and gender studies. From 2002 to 2008, Nickel was State Secretary for Economy, Labour and Women at the Senate of Berlin.
