Secretary General for Gender Equality

Maria STRATIGAKI is Secretary General for Gender Equality at the Ministry of Interior since November 2009.

From 2000 to 2009 she was Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Policy teaching on gender, social policy and gender equality policies and Director of the Centre for Gender Studies.

From 1991 to 1999 she worked at the European Commission (on equal opportunities between women and men -DG EMPL) and from 1999-2002 she was Director of the Centre for Gender Equality in Athens (KETHI).

She has coordinated European research projects on gender, migration and women’s entrepreneurship. She was scientific coordinator of the project Gender Studies in Social and Political Sciences at Panteion University and scientific responsible of the European (FP7) research projects: GeMIC (Gender, migration and intercultural interaction in the South East Europe) and MIG@NET (Migration, Gender and Transnational Digital Networks).   

She has published in Social Politics, the European Journal of Women’s Studies, Les Cahiers du Genre. She is the author of The Gender of Social Policy (2007) and has edited the collective volume Gender Equality Policies: European guidelines and national practice (2008) (both in Greek).