Elena Del Giorgio is currently Research Fellow in the Interdepartmental Centre “Women and Gender Differences” at the University of Milan – Department of Political and Social Sciences where she is working within the FP7 European Project STAGES – Structural Transformation to Achieve Gender Equality in Science. She has also worked within the FP6 European Project QUING – Quality in Gender+Equality Policies at the Complutense University of Madrid. Elena obtained her Master of Research and PhD in Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute with a thesis titled “What has happened to the women’s movement?: Organisational Dynamics and Trajectories of Feminist Organisations in Milan and Berlin”.