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Joan Gibert

She was named for the singer her parents love: Joan Baez. But the normal French version of the name is Jeanne whilst the masculine version is Johan. As her name more closely resembles the latter, when teachers read the name they expected to see a boy. “No, I'm a girl!” she'd say, explaining with a laugh that this might be why she has never considered her gender as an impediment to anything she might want to do. “It's never even crossed my mind to question whether my job is a 'man's job' or a 'woman's job',” she tells me over coffee in my first face-to-face interview since the Covid-19 pandemic broke out in March…