Patricia Roux is a Swiss sociologist and feminist who taught at the Université de Lausanne for over 20 years.
Since 2001, together with Christine Delphy, she has headed the editorial board of the academic journal of feminism Nouvelles Questions Féministes.
This led to a focus on how male domination affects the material conditions of women's existence such as their frequent assignment to domestic work or discrimination against them in the labour market.
More recently she has examined how far the unequal treatment of women results from sexist, racist and capitalist systems of oppression.
[1][4] In 2000, she was behind the creation of LIEGE, le Laboratoire Interfacultaire en Etudes Genre, which provided a basis for collaboration on gender studies with other universities, bringing together some 1,500 students and faculty staff from across Switzerland.