Catherine Marry (née Guyon) is a French sociologist. Her research concerns the sociology of education, the sociology of work and gender studies. She was awarded an Irène Joliot-Curie Prize in 2008 for her mentorship activities and is a research director emeritus at the French research center, CNRS.
Biography
After studying economics and sociology at the university now called
Aix-Marseille University
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, Marry began her career in 1972 in
Aix-en-Provence
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at the Laboratoire d'Economie et de Sociologie du Travail (LEST). In 1986, she continued her research in Paris at the Laboratory of Secondary Analysis and Methods Applied to Sociology (LASMAS), which became known as the
Maurice Halbwachs
Maurice Halbwachs (; 11 March 1877 – 16 March 1945) was a French philosopher and sociologist known for developing the concept of collective memory. Halbwachs also contributed to the sociology of knowledge with his ''La Topographie Legendaire de ...
Center in 2006.
In 1991, Marry joined the French National Centre for Scientific Research (
CNRS
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In 2016, it employed 31,637 ...
) to research career inequalities between women and men in male-dominated professions such as engineering. In 1995, she created the European research group called MAGE (for Labor Market and Gender) with
Margaret Maruani
Margaret Rose Maruani Rey (25 February 1954 – 4 August 2022)
In March 2022, Marry defended her post-doctoral
Habilitation
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degree and her thesis titled, ''The academic excellence of girls: the example of graduates from the great scientific and engineering schools''.
From 2006 until her retirement, she was director of the Professions-Networks-Organizations team at the Maurice Halbwachs Center, where she conducted research on the gendered comparison of careers in the arts professions. Since her retirement, she continues her work at CNRS as Director of Research
Emeritus
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.
Marry is a member of the editorial board of the journal ''Sociologie du travail'' and a member of the scientific committee of the journals ''
Travail, genre et sociétés
''Travail, Genre et Sociétés'' (English: Work, gender and societies) is a biannual French language peer-reviewed academic journal which studies the differences between men and women in the workplace and, more broadly, the role of women in society ...
'' and '' Nouvelles Questions Féministes''. She is also a member of the pedagogical council of the Master's degree program in "Gender, Politics and Sexuality" at School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS3).
Selected publications
* Marry, Catherine. "Femmes ingénieurs: une (ir) résistible ascension?." ''Social Science Information'' 28, no. 2 (1989): 291-344.
* Marry, Catherine. "Genre et professions académiques: esquisse d’un état des lieux dans la sociologie." ''Réflexions sur l’Accès, la Promotion et les Responsabilités des Hommes et des Femmes à l’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. Disponível em http://www. lism. cnrs-mrs. fr/EBãfiles/Resources/DocFemmes/colloquesEHESS. pdf'' (2003).
* Marry, Catherine, and Irène Jonas. "Chercheuses entre deux passions." ''Travail, genre et sociétés'' 2 (2005): 69-88.
* Marry, Catherine. "Le plafond de verre dans le monde académique: l'exemple de la biologie." ''Idées économiques et sociales'' 3 (2008): 36-47.
* Marry, Catherine, Laure Bereni, Alban Jacquemart, Fanny Le Mancq, Sophie Pochic, and Anne Revillard. "Le genre des administrations. La fabrication des inégalités de carrière entre hommes et femmes dans la haute fonction publique." ''Revue française d'administration publique'' 1 (2015): 45-68.
* Marry, Catherine, Laure Bereni, Alban Jacquemart, Sophie Pochic, and Anne Revillard. ''Le plafond de verre et l'État''. Armand Colin, 2017.
Distinctions
* 2008:
Irène Joliot-Curie Prize
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, mentorship category
* 2010: Medal of Merit
* 2016: Chevalier,
Legion of Honor
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* 2019: Honorary Doctorate,
University of Liège
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