Sigrid Metz-Göckel (18 August 1940 – 11 February 2025) was a German sociologist, political scientist and social psychologist who specialized in women's and gender studies as well as in educational research and didactics.

Born on 18 August 1940 in Klein Peterwitz, Gau Silesia,[1] Metz-Göckel was the daughter of Franz-Josef Schneider, a teacher, and his wife Helene who raised her three small children after her husband died as a soldier in the Second World War.

[2][3] In 1972, she completed doctoral studies in social psychology and political science at the University of Giessen,[3] earning a Ph.D. with a dissertation titled Hochschuldidaktik zwischen Theorie und Praxis (University Didactics between Theory and Practice), supervised by Helge Pross [de].

[4] In the 1980s, together with the sociologist Ursula Müller, she conducted a study on men titled Der Mann.

Eine repräsentative Untersuchung über die Lebenssituation und das Frauenbild 20- bis 50-jähriger Männer (Man: A representative study of the situation in life and the image of women among 20- to 50-year-old men), focusing on the emancipation of men and how they viewed women.