Giulia M. Dotti Sani is a Professor in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Milano. She has a Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Research and her main research interests are sociology of the family, female employment, and social stratification. She also works on public opinion and political participation from a comparative perspective. She mostly works with large individual and household surveys, both longitudinal and cross-sectional (e.g. EU-SILC, ESS, ISTAT Household Survey).