{"id":8718,"date":"2025-05-07T09:48:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T07:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/?post_type=news&p=8718"},"modified":"2025-08-13T15:35:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T13:35:24","slug":"faces-of-the-c2dh-myriam-piguet","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/news\/faces-of-the-c2dh-myriam-piguet\/","title":{"rendered":"Faces of the C\u00b2DH: Myriam Piguet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\nExploring how supranational decision-making can impact everyday lives<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Postdoctoral researcher and Vice-Head of the Contemporary European history research group<\/a> Myriam Piguet is interested in how international organisations act as spaces where actors collaborate and interact with each other, and the real impact their decision-making powers can have.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Myriam Piguet, originally from Geneva, Switzerland, completed her PhD at the 成人头条versity of Geneva, writing a thesis titled \u201cGender Before Mainstreaming: The Integration of Women to International Civil Service in the Secretariats of the League of Nations and the 成人头条ted Nations, circa 1920-1975\u201d. Her thesis earned her the Lombard Odier Prize by the Swiss Forum for International Affairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis PhD was on international bureaucracies, and I came to be very interested in the history of international organisations from below, or a socio-historical approach<\/strong>,\u201d she explains. Her research has explored how the League of Nations (1920-1946) was the first diplomatic organisation to engage with women as delegates and international civil servants, giving recognition to gender equality in principle\u2014even if practises were quite different. During the interwar period, for instance, most of the higher-level positions were held back for women, who tended to have more of the lower or middle-status jobs. Within the Secretariat, imbalances emerged as women were often paid less than men for similar work. International women\u2019s organisations, meanwhile, often lobbied together, cooperating for change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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