Le genre caché de la propriété dans la France contemporaine.

An analysis of the problems encountered in performing a statistical analysis of wealth inequalities between men and women reveals the gendered nature of property rights in France: the sources on which such an analysis must be based record the wealth of households or of fiscal households and not of individuals (men or women), and collective forms legal of property also do not distinguish between men and women. As it turns out, having reconstituted individual asset holdings, the wealth of women proves lower than that of men. Furthermore, we observe that women do not hold the same rights over wealth as men: they are more often the owners of assets over which they have no management rights. Finally, in situations where their property rights are formally equal, their position within the power dynamics between owners of a same asset limits their power over such assets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]