About
Laure Bereni is a Research Professor of Sociology, Directrice de recherche at the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) in France. She is a member of the Centre Maurice Halbwachs – a Research Center affiliated to the CNRS, the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and the École Normale Supérieure (ENS) in Paris. Her research interests lie at the intersection of political sociology, the sociology of gender and race, and the sociology of work and organizations. Her first research book, La bataille de la parité: mobilisations pour la féminisation du pouvoir (Paris, Economica, 2015), explored the campaigns that led to the adoption of the gender parity reform in France. Her latest book, Managing Corporate Virtue: The Politics of Workplace Diversity in New York and Paris (Oxford University Press, 2025) offers an in-depth comparative study of workplace diversity programs in the United States and France. Among her recent published articles: “The women’s cause in a field: rethinking the architecture of collective protest in the era of movement institutionalization” (Social Movement Studies, 20(2), 2021: 208‑23), “Gender Quotas in the French Bureaucratic Elite: The Soft Power of Restricted Coercion” (French Politics, 18(1), 2020: 50‑70, with Anne Revillard and Alban Jacquemart), ““Why not a Blonde Woman?” Identity Realism and Diversity Work in New York and in Paris,” Ethnic and Racial Studies, 47(10), 2024.
GEPPN: Gender Equality Policy in Practice Network 