Maike van Damme is a researcher in sociology at CED, working on social stratification and socio-
demography in cross-national perspective. She has a PhD from Tilburg University, the Netherlands,
and worked subsequently at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona; LISER, Luxembourg; and the
Institute for Sociology and Social-Psychology, Cologne. At the moment she works on the potential
impact of crises on social inequalities, the gender gap in wealth, as well as on informal care
consequences in mid-life, all cross-nationally compared. Other research interests are causes and
consequences of union dissolution and separation processes (such as couple conflict and domestic
violence), gender inequalities in couples, and the conceptualization and operationalization of gender
ideologies.