Marianne 2

The project investigates the dynamics of gender equality in the FRG and in France from 1945 to 2010. Goal is to analyse interpretative models of gender and their transformation in the world of labour and employment relations. We assume that those models have changed between 1945 and 2010, and that the interpretative standards developed in the early 20th century have been radically challenged and supplanted. The specificity of the project lies in the analysis of the transformations in the statistics of vocational classifications (1), in labour collective bargaining (2) and in the policies of equality of treatment. The results the project will provide about the relevance of classifications, negotiations and equity to the production and the stabilization of gender (in)equalities (1945-2010) will consequently contribute to the investigation of a key sociological puzzle. Directly related to the former project, the specific output of the undertaking is to consider the social and cultural contexts via the framework of embedded comparative analysis. The “histoire croisée” perspective enables to identify cultural differences and structural homologies between interpretative standards of the French and (West-) German gender relations. In doing so, the project will give a new stimulus to the gender and labour and employment relations research in both countries.