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Rachel Le Marois is a Ph.D. student in management at emlyon business school-OCE, France, and a doctoral student in sociology at Sciences Po-CRIS, France. As part of her thesis, she is currently engaged in personally relevant research on the inclusion of people with invisible disabilities within the French workplace. After ten years working as an engineer while keeping her invisible disability at work a secret, she made the decision in 2021 to join emlyon's Ph.D. program with the aim of conducting research on invisible disabilities in the workplace. The emlyon Ph.D. program consists of two years of master's studies (2021–2023) and three years of thesis studies (2023–2026). Her thesis project is positioned at the intersection of management and the sociology of inequalities. Consequently, in 2023, she chose to carry out her thesis under the joint supervision of emlyon business school (Organizations, Critical and Ethnographic Perspectives - OCE - Research Center) and Sciences Po (Centre for Research on social InequalitieS - CRIS). This co-direction enables her to benefit from a dual expertise in management and sociology. For this project, she is supervised by Mar Pérez and Lisa Buchter at emlyon and Anne Revillard at Sciences Po.
Her research is particularly timely, given the ongoing implementation of new laws to include and protect disabled workers in France. From the perspective of disability studies, she investigates how French organizations engage with invisible disabilities and explores the factors influencing the decisions of workers to disclose or conceal their disability at work. Her article-based dissertation is based on three empirical articles to examine the transformation of public and organizational policies, social inequalities, and institutional mechanisms: Paper 1 investigates how the current changes in disability laws in France reshape the disability policies implemented by French companies. Paper 2 explores the dilemmas of (non-)disclosure of disability at work for employees with invisible disability and how the choices around disclosure are influenced by organizational contexts, specific impairments, and other factors. Paper 3 looks at the trajectories and representations of workers with invisible disability who leave salaried employment for self-entrepreneurship. Through these three studies, she seeks to advance our current theoretical knowledge on the transformation of social inequalities related to invisible disability and offer empirical evidence on the consequences of the implementation of new policies related to disability.