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This project examines the influence of partnership features (e.g., beginning of partnership, biological and institutional age, national and social background of both partners) for female careers in Academia and differentiates between the constellations of occupational areas and the disciplines. The integration (linked lives) processes of two life courses and two professional careers within the couple are taken into greater account by involving and contrasting both the differentiated career arrangements and other types of arrangement – e.g. with regard to mobility and work division – over and above the “dual career” arrangement.

In the face of an increasing percentage of elderly in the population of Western industrial societies the idea of “productive ageing” in the sense of an involvement of the elderly in productive activities has gained importance in the last years. This involves on the one hand their longer participation in the labour market, on the other hand, it includes various other forms of participation, such as volunteering, caring for their peers or for their grandchildren and other informal productive activities.