This section brings together all the analyses classified under this theme.
[by François Rastier] Intersectional ideology is not limited to campus conflicts or imported cancel culture; it certainly finds support in universities, but also in democratic institutions. In short, half a century after the
The topic of "gender" was to be discussed at Humboldt University in Berlin, which caused a great deal of discontent. Historian Jörg Baberowski explains what is really behind this protest. Jörg Baberowski, born in 1961, teaches Eastern European history
Interview with zoologist and evolutionary biologist Axel Meyer published on July 20, 2022 in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Am Ende kommen immer Männchen und Weibchen heraus) Biology and the gender debate: In the end, we always find
[by François Vazeilles] Science, pseudosciences… and bad science… “official” Pseudosciences are successful in popular magazines dedicated to phenomena described as extraordinary and not explained, it seems, by Science, and even via the big
Since independence, the colonial past has often been denounced by the regimes in power; but after three generations, the liberated peoples have the right to demand accountability from them, or at least to no longer be satisfied with invoking the past: this was the meaning of the remarkable essay by Hélé Béji, Nous, décolonisés (Arléa, 2008).
[by Cyrille Godonou] Within the gender inequalities in poverty, extreme poverty holds a unique place. Extreme poverty can be understood by the fact of being homeless or even more destitute, that is to say, homeless, the first category being more
[by Hubert Heckmann] The use of the term "ecology" is interesting in the "Publication Profile (Galaxie): Literature and Ecology - ECO/LIT" put out to competition in May 2022. Since it is not about scientific ecology (the CNU sections indicated are the 9th
[by Cyrille Godonou] Despite abundant documentation showing that the majority of female part-time work is chosen (two thirds to three quarters), it is surprising that not all authors relay this conclusion, particularly in the
[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
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.