Margaret Maruani

Since 2010, she was attached to the "Centre de recherche sur les liens sociaux" (CERLIS) (Centre for Research on Social Ties), CNRS laboratory-Paris Descartes University. She 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.

She 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. In 2006, she created the Master in Gender Studies there.

Maruani began her career in 1976 as a research fellow at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (CNAM), in the sociology of work laboratory. She was then appointed Assistant, and in 1983, became a CNRS researcher, attached to CNAM's sociology of work laboratory. In 1991, she passed the requirements to direct research at the IEP in Paris, under the direction of Jean-Daniel Reynaud and joined the "Centre de sociologie urbaine" (Center for Urban Sociology). In 1992, Maruani was promoted to research director at CNRS. Three years later, she founded the MAGE–CNRS research group, the first research group on gender at CNRS. In 1999, she established the academic journal, Travail, genre et sociétés, of which she then became the editor-in-chief, before becoming its editorial advisor.

Margaret Rose Maruani Rey (25 February 1954 – 4 August 2022) was a Tunisian-born French sociologist and director of research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris. She was the founder and editor-in-chief of the academic journal, Travail, Genre et Sociétés and directed the international and multidisciplinary research network "Marché du travail et Genre" (MAGE–CNRS) ('Labour Market and Gender').

Margaret Rose Maruani was born 25 February 1954, in Tunis, Tunisia. She arrived in France with her family in 1967. She studied at Sciences Po (1975), and then pursued a diploma in Sociology at the Instituts d'études politiques (IEP) in Paris (1976). She defended her doctoral thesis in Sociology at the IEP in Paris in 1978. Her thesis, entitled "L'expression des problèmes féminins dans les syndicats et à travers les conflits sociaux" (The expression of women's problems in unions and through social conflicts) was supervised by Jean-Daniel Reynaud. It was published in 1979 under the title, Les syndicats à l’épreuve du féminisme (Unions put to the test by feminism).