“…In Anglo-Saxon literature, after a heated debate in British sociology in the early 1980s about the relevance and manner in which the situation of women is taken into account in analyses of social stratification and mobility (see Vallet, 2001 for an abstract of this controversy), use of the "dominant position" has spread, although it does not always have the strongest explanatory power (Thaning & Hällsten, 2020). 5 In France, while statisticians and social scientists have made several attempts to combine the work situations of individuals in the household -in the form of a categorical nomenclature (Baudelot & Establet, 2005;Villac, 1983), a continuous index (Lebart et al, 1977;Rocher, 2016) or modular method of construction according to the objects (Cayouette-Remblière & Ichou, 2019) -none have resulted in a widely followed use.…”