Awards 2025
Prizewinner: Célia Bouchet
For her paper ‘Gendered Work Restrictions: Disability and the Division of Labor in France’ (Forthcoming in Population 2-3/2024).
Sociologist Célia Bouchet is currently undertaking post-doctoral work within the research project Prespol (Promoting the economic autonomy of disabled people through employment and social policy), financed by the Priority Research Autonomy Programme (PPR Autonomie). Since defending her thesis, entitled “Handicap et destinées sociales” [Disability and social destinies], in 2022, Célia Bouchet’s research has combined mixed methods to focus on the scope and mechanisms surrounding social inequalities—particularly with respect to disability and gender. This entry point has led her to investigate questions of education, work, and partnerships. Her special interests lie in the epistemology of subjectivity and public policy analysis.
Abstract
While the gendered division of paid and unpaid work among different-sex couples is known to be shaped by social class and gender, the role of disability remains underexplored. Regression models using French Labor Force Survey data reveal that, compared with couples without limitations, those in which one or both partners have long-lasting limitations are less likely to be dual earners, and those in which the woman has limitations display less gendered specialization in parenthood. A thematic analysis of biographical interviews with 37 disabled adults highlights subjective experiences and decision-making processes regarding paid and unpaid work across different couple employment configurations, as well as the social influences shaping them. Although men’s employment restrictions and women’s housework restrictions prompt circumstantial adjustments in the division of labor, they do not fundamentally transform gender roles. This tension between material constraints and symbolic norms is encapsulated by introducing the new concept of gendered work restriction.
The international jury 2025
Président: Fatima Juarez (El Colegio de México, Mexico)
Members:
Iñaki Permanyer (Universitat autonòma de Barcelona, Spain)
Emilio Zagheni (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany)
Non-voting members:
Lionel Kesztenbaum (Ined, France)
Bruno Masquelier (UCLouvain, Belgium)
Delphine Remillon (Ined, France)