Marie Duru-Bellat is a sociologist and emeritus professor at Sciences Po, and a researcher at the Observatoire sociologique du changement, and the Institut de recherche sur l'éducation.
The notions of merit and equal opportunity constitute not only the precepts of a society where strong inequalities persist, but that they are, in certain ways, contrary to justice.
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Marie Duru-Bellat
Although the notion of gender was promoted by sociologists to shed light on relations of domination, invoking it at every opportunity – from the feminisation of language to political parity – establishes the idea that men and women are still, above all, and in every way prototypes of their sex group rather than unique individuals.