8 July 2021

Proud to Punish. The World of Outlaw Vigilantes

‘There is no greater law firm than Smith & Wesson, especially if it’s backed up by a 12-gauge injunction.’ A member of the American vigilante […]
8 July 2021

Curricula and Jobs: Understanding Gender Segregation

By Carlo Barone, Observatoire sociologique du changement Women now outperform men in education: their rates of upper secondary and tertiary attainment are significantly higher in […]
16 March 2021

Policy Elites and Politics: The Case of Obamacare

Does the idea of all-powerful elites shaping public policy to align with their interests reflect reality? If so, how do they pull it off? If […]
16 March 2021

When Earning a Living Costs Your Life

by Jean-Noël Jouzel,  Jérôme Pelisse (CSO), Catherine Cavalin, Emmanuel Henry (IRISSO) A History of the Lack of Recognition for Occupational Illnesses Occupational illnesses, such as […]
16 March 2021

Female Education, Technologies and the Demographic Transition

A Virtuous Circle by Angela Greulich, OSC Studying the demographic transition in developing countries calls for a long-term perspective. Taking into account intergenerational dynamics, as […]
3 July 2020

This Peculiar Epidemic is a Happiness Disease…

In his book Les maladies du bonheur [Happiness diseases] published last March, Hugues Lagrange, an emeritus CNRS research director at the Observatory of Social Change […]
18 May 2020

Marital Separations and the (Non-) Emancipation of Women

by Émilie Biland-Curinier, CSO * The women mobilised in the Yellow Vest movement rightly denounced the fact that many single mothers face major financial difficulties […]
18 May 2020
Japanese Picture Brides at Angel Island in 1919. Crédit photo : Domaine public

Marriage Migration: Female Paths

by Hélène Le Bail, CERI* The migration of women through marriage is an old phenomenon, which renewed in the 1990s with international mobility. On the […]
18 May 2020
Politiques des quotas d'égalité entre sexes . Crédits : Delpixel, Shutterstock

Are Quotas a Solution for Equality?

By Anne Revillard, OSC/LIEPP * Over the past few decades, gender equality policies have increasingly used quotas to promote women’s access to positions of power, […]