Lucile Peytavin
Lucile Peytavin is an essayist and doctor in economic and social history.
She is a member of the Women's Foundation's Observatory on the Economic Emancipation of Women and an expert in violence prevention for the Psytel firm.
She founded Lucile Peytavin consulting firm and co-founded Gender and Statistics association.
She is the author of the essay "The Cost of Virility: What France Would Save If Men Behaved Like Women?"
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"TOXIC MASCULINITY, HOW MUCH DOES IT COST THE STATE AND SOCIETY?"
Lucile Peytavin exposes the links between the social injunctions to virility to which men are subjected and the overrepresentation of the latter in the statistics of violent and risky behavior. In doing so, she opens the possibility of thinking about a more humanist education transmitted to boys to build a more egalitarian , more peaceful and richer society .
In France, men are responsible for the overwhelming majority of antisocial behavior: they represent 83% of those charged by the courts, 90% of those convicted, and the prison population is 96% male. They are overrepresented in all types of offenses, particularly the most serious. The Ministries of Justice and the Interior operate overwhelmingly for men.
Therefore, while not all men are delinquents and criminals, the vast majority of delinquents and criminals are men.
This has a financial and human cost estimated at tens of billions of euros per year. Paid by the state in police, judicial, medical, and educational services to deal with it, and by society, which bears the physical and psychological suffering of the victims, and suffers losses of productivity and destruction of property.
Lucile Peytavin questions the reasons for this over-representation of men as the main perpetrators of violence and risky behavior: she deconstructs preconceived ideas about the supposed biological causes and dissects the educational mechanisms at work.
So what is the cost, in France, in 2021, of the consequences of virility, erected as a dominant cultural ideology? Lucile Peytavin asks the question: wouldn't it be in all our interests to educate boys like girls?!
"INÉGALITÉS F/H ET MASCULINITÉ TOXIQUE, COMBIEN ÇA COÛTE À LA SOCIÉTÉ ET AUX ENTREPRISES ?"
"F/M INEQUALITIES AND TOXIC MASCULINITY, HOW MUCH DOES IT COST SOCIETY AND BUSINESS?"
Lucile Peytavin notes the over-representation of men in statistics of violent and risky behavior in society and in the world of work.
Men represent 83% of those charged by the courts, 90% of those convicted by the court, and the prison population is 96% male. They are overrepresented in all types of offenses, particularly the most serious
ones. The Ministries of Justice and the Interior operate largely for men. In business, dominant masculinity is expressed among men through so-called authoritarian management which increases psychosocial risks for employees, significant risk-taking, discrimination and violence, particularly against women, etc.
Lucile Peytavin exposes the human and financial consequences of this antisocial behavior.
For society, this has an estimated financial and human cost of 95.2 to nearly 100 billion euros per year. Paid by the state in police, judicial, medical, and educational services to deal with it, and by society, which bears the physical and psychological suffering of the victims, and suffers losses of productivity and destruction of property.
For businesses, the losses also amount to hundreds of billions of euros due to absenteeism, lower productivity, health insurance contributions, etc.
The origins of these antisocial behaviors are not "natural" but are the result of the education in virility transmitted to boys in particular. Lucile Peytavin deconstructs preconceived ideas about the supposed biological causes and dissects the educational mechanisms at work.
In doing so, it opens up the possibility of thinking about a more humanist education transmitted to boys and so-called participatory management methods to build a more egalitarian, more peaceful and richer society and world of work!
