Delphine Gardey

Delphine Gardey (born 1967, France) is a French historian and sociologist. She is a professor of contemporary history at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and director of the Institute of Gender Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences. She is currently a member of the editorial board of the journal Travail, Genre et Sociétés. She is also affiliated with "Groupement De Recherche Européen" (GDRE) (English: European Research Group) and "Marché du travail et genre en Europe" (MAGE) (English: Labor market and gender in Europe). She is a member of the "Genre, Travail, Mobilités" (GTM) (English: Gender, Work, Mobilities) Laboratory of "Centre de recherches sociologiques et politiques de Paris" (CRESPPA) (English: Paris Center for Sociological and Political Research). Her work focuses mainly on the history of science and technology studies, feminist theories, as well as the place of women in history and society in general.

Career and research Gardey was a researcher at the "Centre de recherche en histoire des sciences et des techniques" (English: Center for Research in the History of Science and Technology) from 1995 to 2006 within a research group funded by the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie (CSI) of Paris, the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), and the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS). She was a lecturer at the Paris 8 University Vincennes-Saint-Denis until 2008.

In 2009, she became a professor of sociology at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. In the same year, Gardey was appointed full professor of contemporary history at the University of Geneva, as well as director of the master's and doctorate in gender studies.

Gardey's research focuses on the history of women in the workforce, the social history of techniques, the history of writing and information technology, the history of the office and of tertiary sector of the economy.

Gardey is interested in the way in which cognitive and material innovations were at the origin at the end of the 19th century of an "administrative revolution". She studies how technological evolution has redefined social and cultural roles. She works on issues linking gender and science, as well as gender and information and communication technologies.