The author is a full professor of Sociology in the field of Educational Sociology in the Faculty of Educational Science at the University of Santiago de Compostela. She is also president of the national research committee on Gender Sociology of the Spanish Sociology Federation (FES), and an officially appointed professor (Lehrbeauftragte) of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität in Frankfurt, where she lectures on Gender Sociology. She is foundation group coordinator at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Feminist Research and Gender Studies (CIFEX) of the University of Santiago de Compostela.