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France: When RW Bigotry Meets Data and Reality, I imagine the data would be similar in the US? [1]
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Date: 2025-04-10
As we all know, the right wing hates it when someone identifies themselves as different; I call them Stepford Imperialists. Their rallying cry is “The Woke Agenda!”, reduced to some form of conspiracy theory when the word “woke” has lost all meaning and become just something to be despised.
For Francophones
The study will be published in “Actes de la recherche en sciences sociale” and can be found here in its pre-publication format: [La part du genre. Genre et approche intersectionnelle dans les sciences sociales françaises au XXIe siècle ] AI translators are available, use your preferred.
For everyone else: the following article
No obsession with gender in French social sciences, vast study finds Le Monde
A team led by sociologist Etienne Ollion (professor at the École Polytechnique) conducted an in-depth investigation into the role of gender issues in 120 scientific publications. The focus on gender went from 9% of the total in 2001 to 11.4% in 2022. The sample of journals studied was extensive – 120 French social science publications and 50,000 article abstracts published since 2001. The study's results showed that, in just over two decades, the proportion of art "We are very far from the massive surge announced by some," noted the authors. Especially since the investigation's selection criteria were also broad: Articles were included if they simply mentioned a gender variable (eg "this study examines salary differences based on certification, age, region of origin, and sex") and are therefore far from being exclusively focused on gender, let alone steeped in any alleged "gender ideology." Indeed, the figure of 11.4% was a deliberately high estimate, and was intended to be analyzed in light of another statistic: Publications in humanities and social science account for only 4.9% and 6.3% of French scientific publications, respectively, according to data from the High Council for the Evaluation of Research and Higher Education.icles using a gender-based approach rose from 9% to 11.4% of the total.
By overly emphasizing a slow increase in studies related to gender perspectives, one might overlook that this is not a regrettable thing at all. One of feminism's major theoretical contributions, which scientific studies have increasingly been able to objectively demonstrate, is that gender is a concept that structures and divides the social world. "The male-female difference is like age brackets; it's one of the variables we must measure," said Sébastien Chauvin, an associate professor at the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lausanne, in Switzerland, and researcher at the Center for Gender Studies. "The differences are not always relevant, but not taking them into account at all would be a scientific mistake." The study rather highlights that the French are behind in this research field, according to Nonna Mayer, a political science researcher and emeritus research director at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). "France took time to accept the concept of gender," she said.
The only ones obsessed are the bigots.
I would like to hear from any sociologists here on D-Kos that have access to US data. In general I dont want the acual data [I have enough data on my own subjects]
Meanwhile I’m fine with being an individual thank you very much.
A morning muse
~A
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