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Eléonore Lépinard is Associate Professor in gender studies at the Institute of Social Sciences.

Her main areas of research are in the fields of feminist movements and theory, gender and politics, gender and law, and intersectionality. Her first monograph, in French, L’égalité introuvable (Elusive Equality, presses de Sciences po, Paris, 2007), retraced the French gender parity constitutional reform. She was the recipient in 2012 of the best paper award from APSA women and politics section, as well as of the Frank L. Wilson best paper award of APSA French politics group.

In recent years she has published articles in Politics, Politics, Groups & Identitie, Gender & Society, and Politics & Gender. Her next book, edited with Ruth Rubio-Marin, is a comparative volume on gender quotas in Europe, forthcoming in 2018 at Cambridge University Press.