Les enjeux du travail des femmes

Abstract

Work and women is the subject of more and more interest and questions as the number of working women is beginning to catch up to that of men. But women have always worked even if their statistic visibility is recent. While these trades and professions are better and better known and there is more and more literature in the last few years, there is a heavy historical debt towards the sociology of work that blazed new research trails in the early 1960s, trails that new generations have taken up since the late 1980s. Likewise, the sociology of education has also shown the way in its research on gender difference development, especially in the 20 th c. The job of historians is both to give these questions a chronological dimension and to link these two fields so as to understand how women were assigned to certain jobs and the present-day renewals of their education as well as their place on the work market.