| 2007 – 2021 | Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany |
| 2006 | Guest Professor at the Sorbonne, (École Pratique des Hautes Études, EPHE), Paris, France |
| 2005 – 2006 | Maria-Goeppert-Mayer-Guest Professor for International Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Hildesheim, Germany |
| 1999 – 2007 | Reader, University of Münster, Germany, Department of Education and Social Sciences |
| 2000 | Visiting Professor at the ‘International Women’s University’ Hanover, Germany |
| 1998 – 2000 | Member of the Curriculum Committee of the ‘International Women’s University’, Hanover, Germany |
| 1997 – 1999 | Acting Professor: Education and Women’s Studies, Goethe-University of Frankfurt, Germany |
| 1996 | Scholar in Residence, Amsterdam School of Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 1991 – 1996 | Assistant Professor at the Department of General Social Sciences and the European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations (ERCOMER), University of Utrecht, The Netherlands |
| 1985 – 1990 | Researcher at the “Centre for Race and Ethnic Studies” University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 1983 – 1985 | Social planning, International Building Exhibition in Urban Redevelopment, Berlin, Germany |
| 1980 – 1983 | Lecturer at the Technical University of Berlin (TU), Germany |
| 1976 – 1980 | Social worker in different projects in Germany (Kassel, Bremen, Berlin) |