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Labour was the primary subject of early academic work on gender relations in France and "gender studies" remained marked by this legacy. Can we however assert that the gender dimension of work is now fully integrated into this branch of sociology and that gender specialists receive full recognition in the field? To answer this question, we propose a comparative analysis of the evolution of the number of articles devoted to the "gendering of work" in two sociology of labour journals in France and Great Britain. We show that the number of articles relating to gender and work is consistently much smaller in France than on the other side of the Channel, throughout the period studied. This "gender blindness" which pervades labour sociology in France does not obscure only the reality of women's work in this country; it also hides and marginalizes the female researches who specialize on gender within this academic field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Every member of the public can be a user of official information, no matter if he does it from a particular center of activities, as a member of a lobby or association or simply as an individual. Nowadays the production of information is massive and there is a need for making this information known to the public as soon as possible. For this reason, supranational bodies and national governments develop proceedings in order to communicate written information using centralized, descentralized and mixed editorial systems. This article aims at explaining centralized editorial systems, which are the ones that have experienced a largest editorial development. We will review the procedures used by the U.S.A., the U.K. and the UE in this regard as well as the information sources they produce. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]