13 Facts About Margaret Maruani

Margaret Rose Maruani Rey was a Tunisian-born French sociologist and director of research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research in Paris.

Margaret Rose Maruani was born 25 February 1954, in Tunis, Tunisia.

Margaret Maruani arrived in France with her family in 1967.

Margaret Maruani studied at Sciences Po, and then pursued a diploma in Sociology at the Instituts d'etudes politiques in Paris.

Margaret Maruani defended her doctoral thesis in Sociology at the IEP in Paris in 1978.

Margaret Maruani's thesis, entitled "L'expression des problemes feminins dans les syndicats et a travers les conflits sociaux" was supervised by Jean-Daniel Reynaud.

Margaret Maruani was then appointed Assistant, and in 1983, became a CNRS researcher, attached to CNAM's sociology of work laboratory.

In 1992, Margaret Maruani was promoted to research director at CNRS.

Margaret Maruani taught for several years at the University of Geneva, as guest professor in 2002 and 2003, then as full professor and director of gender studies, from 2005 to 2009, and again as guest professor since 2012.

Margaret Maruani directed MAGE, which in 2011, became an international and multidisciplinary research network "Labour market and gender" which now brings together 30 universities and research centres in 13 countries.

Margaret Maruani's research focused on women's work, employment and trade unionism and on the analysis of the labor market and employment from a gender perspective.

Margaret Maruani is one of the pioneers in France and internationally in the field of studies crossing sociology and gender applied to questions of work and employment.

Margaret Maruani was one of the pioneers in the institutionalisation of the field of gender studies.