Eric Macé, march 18th 2025 at 1PM.
LaBRI amphitheater, Talence campus.
Girls perform better than boys in mathematics at the beginning of primary school but score lower by the end of it. They avoid engineering studies, which guarantee success, yet dominate medical studies, where failure rates are high. In France, the proportion of women in higher education science programs is only 25%, compared to 55% in Tunisia. To understand these paradoxes, we must recognize that gender is not just about identity differences but a social power structure that creates inequalities—and can, conversely, restore equality.
Eric Macé is a professor of sociology at the University of Bordeaux and a researcher at the Emile Durkheim Center. His work focuses on the sociology of power relations, and he has explored gender and inequality issues in his research. He published several opinion articles in the journal Le Monde.
