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Michel Messu

the new spirit of colonialism

[by Michel Messu] For some time now, the social sciences have been agitated by a current of opinion which proposes to rethink the history of our contemporary societies based on a renewed reading of what colonization carried out by

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Cyrille Godonou

The “glass ceiling” in research: the mystery solved?

These explanations would benefit from having the echo they deserve. While we obviously find studies reporting recruitment or advancement bias among researchers (sometimes also in the opposite direction to that usually suspected), it seems that overall in France we can explain the disparities only by the choices made and scientific productivity, namely the fact of applying and publishing [(Mairesse & Pezzoni, 2015); (Bosquet, Combes, & Garcia-Panalosa, 2014)], a differential which itself is explained, at least in part, by family commitments. Overall, by looking closely at the data, it is clear that the mystery of the "glass ceiling" seems to have been elucidated.

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Xavier-Laurent Salvador

A universalist wokeness

[by Xavier-Laurent Salvador] We must pay attention to the ideological murmur that floods the media and whose work consists of incessantly adapting reality to the needs of the penetration of wokism into the market of ideologies of continental law.

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Collective

On the Danger of Defining a Word: “Racism”

[XLS] In the excellent documentary directed by Bernard de la Villardière and broadcast on M6 (Minorities, Gender and Racialism), a moment makes us shudder which perhaps shows that the danger is not where we generally think it is – and when

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