News Thursdays: The family, another cradle of inequalities?

Questions of inheritance and wealth transmission are regularly at the heart of political debates and studied through the angle of class relations, but much less through the prism of gender. In their book Le genre du capital : comment la famille reproduit les inégalités (The Gender of Capital: How the Family Reproduces Inequalities), Céline Bessière and Sibylle Gollac investigated the calculations, divisions, and conflicts that occur during marital separations and inheritances, with the assistance of legal professionals.

From single mothers in the Yellow Vests movement to the divorce of Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos, from the transmission of small businesses to Johnny Hallyday's inheritance, the mechanisms of control and distribution of capital vary according to social classes, but always lead to the dispossession of women.

With the participation of:

Sibylle Gollac, sociologist, research fellow at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), and director of the Cultures and Urban Societies (CSU) team at the Center for Sociological and Political Research of Paris.

Denis Colombi, sociologist and teacher of Economic and Social Sciences, author notably of the book Qui travaille vraiment, published by Payot in 2024.

The meeting will be moderated by Anne-Sophie Simpere, journalist and investigator. She has notably worked with the Corporate Europe Observatory on issues of arms sales and the defense industry, on mass surveillance, on environmental issues, and was an advocacy officer for Amnesty International.

The meeting will be followed by a book sale in partnership with the bookstore Le Rideau Rouge.