Women and Science Chair | Team

Elyès Jouini is a professor of economics, member of the Institut Universitaire de France, Fellow of the Econometric Society and the Institute for Labor Economics (IZA), and corresponding member of the Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts (Beït al-Hikma). He was vice-president of Université Paris Dauphine-PSL between 2004 and 2019.

He is an alumnus of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and holds a doctorate from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He won the Le Monde/Cercle des économistes Best Young Economist of France Award in 2005.

Elyès Jouini is one of the top experts on the European Commission for Research, Science and Innovation, after having been a member of the French President’s Haut Conseil de la science et de la technologie (science and technology council) and the Prime Minister’s Conseil d’analyse économique (economic analysis council).

He has also been a member of Tunisia’s Conseil d'Analyses Economiques since 2017 and was a member of the transitional Tunisian government (as Minister for Economic and Social Reform) in 2011.

Clotilde Napp is Director of CNRS Research at Université Paris Dauphine – PSL.

While trained in mathematics, she is now interested in individual and collective behavior in the face of risk, and in the interdisciplinary subject of gender inequality, particularly in the sciences.

Her most recent works on this subject have been published in Science, PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Science) and JEBO (Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization).

Along with her collaborator Thomas Breda, she is investigating the role of academic performance in the underrepresentation of women in science. She has proved that exam results in mathematics and literature, or more particularly the comparative advantage of mathematics over literature, can help explain the difference between the areas of academic specialization often followed by boys and girls.

An alumnus of the Ecole normale supérieure, Thomas Breda is an associate professor at the Paris School of Economics and CNRS.

He is also Director of the Travail et Emploi program at the Public Policy Institute and was nominated for the Le Monde/Cercle des économistes Best Young Economist of France Award in 2019.

His research focuses on the role of institutions and social norms in explaining both inequalities at work and the distribution of wealth in companies between labor and capital, and between different categories of employees.

He is particularly interested in the effect of unions on value-added sharing; discrimination against staff representatives; labor taxation; and gender inequalities and gender discrimination.

He has published several articles in journals such as Science on the latter, in which he investigates the underrepresentation of women in scientific disciplines by assessing the role of discrimination, differences in level of education, and gender stereotypes.

Claudia SENIK is Professor at Sorbonne-University and the Paris School of Economics. She is the Director of the Wellbeing Observatory at CEPREMAP, deputy-Director of CEPREMAP, and member of the IZA. Educated at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, she received her PhD from EHESS. 
Her main research area is the economics of happiness, with a special interest in the relationship between income growth, income distribution and subjective wellbeing, as well as wellbeing at work. She also conducts a research stream on the cultural dimension of gender norms and the role of institutions in changing them.

She published many articles in refereed journals, as well as several books, such as L’économie du bonheur, la République des idées, Seuil, 2014 ; Les Français, le bonheur et l’argent, Presses de l’ENS, 2018 ; and Bien-être au travail : ce qui compte, Presses de SciencesPo, 2020.

Dominique Meurs is a Professor at the University of Paris Nanterre and a member of the EconomiX (UMR7235). Economist, she is the Executive Director of the PSE Labor Chair, co-director of the Cepremap Labor Program, and an associate researcher at INED and IPP. Her main research area is the labor market inequalities and discrimination, particularly against immigrants and descendants of immigrants, and women. In recent years, she has worked in partnership with large companies (L'Oréal, Michelin, EdF, etc.) on pay and career inequalities between women and men.

She published numerous publications and books, including « The “mommy track” in the workplace. Evidence from a large French firm ». Labour Economics, 2021, vol. 72, p. 102035, « Gender pension gaps along the distribution : An application to the French case ». Journal of Pension Economics & Finance, 1 23, 2020,  « Égalité professionnelle entre les femmes et les hommes en France : une lente convergence freinée par les maternités », Economie et Statistique, 2019

Sophie Pochic is director of research at the CNRS and a member of the Centre Maurice Halbwachs (ENS-EHESS). Sociologist, she is a member of the steering committee of the MAGE network (Marché du travail et genre), of the editorial board of Travail, genre et sociétés and is also associate professor in the Master's program in gender studies at EHESS. Educated at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Cachan), she did her doctoral studies at the LEST (Economy and Sociology of Work Laboratory) and the University of Aix-Marseille.

For the past twenty years, she has been developing research on gender, work and organizations, with investigations on the mechanisms of (re)production of the "glass ceiling" in large companies, in trade unions and in the public service, often based on international comparisons (with England and Hungary in particular) and collaborative research with these organisations. She is also interested in the disposals aimed at preventing/reducing/sanctioning discriminations, particularly against women, via collective bargaining, the use of law or quantification. Between 2016 and 2019, she served as a qualified expert at the Conseil Supérieur de l'Egalité professionnelle (CSEP).

She is the author of numerous publications in leading journals, and has coordinated several books and special issues, including the following:
Quantifier l’égalité au travail. Outils politiques, enjeux scientifiques, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2021 [with S. Blanchard].
Le genre au travail. Recherches féministes et luttes de femmes, Syllepse, 2021 [with N. Lapeyre, J. Laufer, R. Silvera et S. Lemière].
Le plafond de verre et l’Etat. La construction des inégalités de genre dans la fonction publique, Armand Colin, 2017 [with C. Marry, L. Bereni, A. Jacquemart et A. Revillard].

Marie-Pierre Dargnies is an assistant professor at Dauphine university (DRM Finance) since 2012.
In her research, she uses laboratory experiments to address issues of behavioral economics and finance. Prior to her arrival at Dauphine, she obtained a PhD thesis entitled "Gender and taste for competition: an experimental approach" defended in November 2009, at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and PSE. She then spent two years as a post-doctoral fellow at the WZB in Berlin. 

Among her last last publications:
Self-confidence and unraveling in matching markets, with Rustamdjan Hakimov and Dorothea Kübler, (2019, Management Science)
Gender Differences in Reaction to Feedback and Willingness to Compete, with Noémi Berlin, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (October 2016), Volume 130, pp. 320-336.

Jeanne Goulpier graduated from Bordeaux with an undergraduate degree in sociology in 2017, and then from the Sorbonne with a Master’s in Sociology in September 2020.

She wrote her thesis on “Being a Twenty-Something and Wanting to Never Have a Child: Questioning and Distancing Oneself from the Reproductive Norm as a Young Woman,” under the mentorship of Renaud Debailly.

During her end-of-program internship at Emmaüs France, she researched the connection between poverty and prison, with the goal of supporting political advocacy for the fight against poverty of young offenders.

Pauline Charousset holds a Masters in Public Policy and Development from the Paris School of Economics and has been working with Julien Grenet as a doctoral candidate in economics at the Paris School of Economics and Paris 1 since 2016.

Her research focuses on inequalities of access to higher education and university admissions policies.

Georgia Thebault is a doctoral student in economics at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) and the Paris School of Economics. Her research focuses on the role of spatial constraints on the academic orientation decisions of students starting higher education.

She is writing her doctoral dissertation on the underrepresentation of women in scientific disciplines and careers, with Julien Grenet and Marc Gurgand of the Paris School of Economics as her advisors.