Loïa Lamarque

I am a researcher, teacher, and independent journalist with an interest in gender inequalities. More specifically, my work explores:

1. how gender gaps in health are connected to inequalities in household decision-making power;

2. how women — who have only recently begun to accumulate their own wealth — transfer it to their children; and

3. how to detect antifeminism in text corpora, and how its forms and intensity have evolved over time.

My research emphasizes the role of cultural norms in shaping gender inequalities — whether by influencing gender roles (such as women’s greater concern for health and care work) or by structuring institutions that perpetuate inequality (such as masculine norms in positions of power, or the lower pay of professions considered “feminine”).

I use computational and quantitative methods to measure inequalities and identify their underlying drivers in my academic research. My journalistic work and field reports, by contrast, draw on interviews, fieldwork, and photography.

I hold a PhD from Ined (French Institute for Demographic Studies, Paris) and University of Montpellier, supervized by Alexandra Alvergne and Marion Leturcq.