Sylvie SCHWEITZER

Sylvie Schweitzer is Emeritus Professor of Modern History at the University of Lyon 2. She is a specialist in the history of women’s labor. She has published Les femmes ont toujours travaillé. Une histoire de leurs métiers, xix^e-xx^e siècle (Odile Jacob, 2002), which retraces the history of the division of the labor market; Femmes de pouvoir. Une histoire de l’égalité professionnelle en Europe (Payot, 2010), which focuses on the comparative history of professional women; and Les inspectrices du travail, 1878-1914. Le genre de la fonction publique (PUR, 2016), which uses the prosopography of female labor inspectors to show how and why gender mixing in a profession does not automatically lead to gender equality.