Sylvia Walby Sylvia Walby is Professor of Sociology and UNESCO Chair of Gender Research at Lancaster University, UK. She has previously been Professor of Sociology in the Universities of Leeds and Bristol, and Reader at the LSE; and founding President of the European Sociological Association. She was the founding Director of the Lancaster Women’s Studies Research Centre and of the LSE Gender Institute. She was awarded an OBE for services to equal opportunities and diversity in 2008. She is an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and President of the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee on Economy and Society. She has been a research consultant to the UK Home Office, UK Women and Equality Unit, UK Equal Opportunities Commission, UK Equalities and Human Rights Commission, European Commission, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, and the United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women. She is a former Co-Chair of the UK Women’s Budget Group. She is currently developing a project on ‘Gender and the financial crisis’ for UNESCO. Publications include: Theorizing Patriarchy (Blackwell 1990); Gender Transformations (Routledge 1997); Patriarchy at Work, (Polity 1986); Sex Crime in the News (with Soothill) (Routledge 1991); Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and Stalking: Findings from the British Crime Survey (with Allen) (Home Office Research Study 2004); The Cost of Domsetic Violence (Women and Equality Unit, 2004); Gendering the Knowledge Economy: Comparative Perspectives, co-edited with Gottfried, Gottschall and Osawa (Palgrave 2007); Gender Mainstreaming, editor of a special issue Social Politics, 2005, 12, 3, 321-452. Her latest book, Globalization and Inequalities: Complexity and Contested Modernities was published by Sage in 2009. Her website is: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/sociology/profiles/34/.