Le continent noir de laféminité: Sexualité et/ou travail?

Abstract

Considering different situations concerning 1) women working in professions where they are in a minority (engineers, business consultants, surgeons and research workers) and 2) women working in professions that are largely occupied by women (nurses, social workers and auxiliary child-care workers), the author discusses the relations between work and womanhood. On clinical analysis, being a woman proves to be an additional difficulty in the combined search for construction of one's identity and self-fulfilment.