Homosexual people (lesbians and gays) are victims of several forms of violence at work: discrimination (in access to employment, responsibilities, for example), stigmatization, humiliation, and sexual violence, among others (Zurbrügg & Miner, 2016). Women, whatever their sexual orientation, are also victims of discrimination and violence in the workplace (Laufer, 2014). This research project lies at the intersection of these two fields, and aims to describe and understand the work experience of lesbian employees, and how work organizations can become more inclusive for these women (acronym ODILE: Organization - Diversity - Inclusion - LEsbians). In doing so, it integrates a "gender approach" into the understanding of discrimination and violence experienced by homosexual people at work. The project is based on three studies: a qualitative exploratory study based on interviews, a netnography, and a quantitative study based on a questionnaire in order to create and analyze a representative database of French employees. It aims to enrich the literature on gender and the literature on the inclusion of homosexual people by crossing them and showing the specificity of lesbian employees' experiences at work. This enrichment will also shed light on the notion of inclusion, which is increasingly used (but also criticized) in academic literature.

The objective of the proposal is to develop a molecular design that enables a Light-induced Electronic Control of MAgnetic molecules (LECMA). This project is based on the concept of using light to trigger a change between two electronic states leading to bistability at room temperature. The molecules will consist of organic photo-active parts linked to Fe(II) spin crossover (SCO) complexes. These magnetic complexes can reversibly switch from a diamagnetic low spin state (LS, S=0) to a paramagnetic high spin state (HS, S=2). The concept developed in this project consists in using light to induce a dissymmetric electronic distribution on the Fe(II) ligands that would trigger the spin transition process. To date, it still remains a challenge to reversibly and synergistically manipulate the SCO process by light irradiation in the solid state at room temperature. The thermal bistability in spin crossover systems is not due to single molecules but emerges from long range elastic interactions among the molecules within the molecular materials. To aim at a direct electric control of the spin state, we will use organic photo-switches as ligands in SCO complexes, providing a change of the electronic density distribution in the coordination sphere of the magnetic metallic ion, thus triggering the electronic switch. In addition, to increase and modulate the electronic delocalizations, we will play on ligand polarizability by introducing donor and acceptor moieties on the Fe(II) ligands. Thus, the molecular systems developed in this project open the routes to information storage at the single molecule level at room temperature, and will have high potential in molecular electronics for the development of many applications (sensors, information storage, electronic devices).