Jolanta Reingarde, PhD,works as a senior researcher/analyst at the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE), an EU agency based in Vilnius, Lithuania. There she leads a research team working on the Gender Equality Index, CARE survey and annual progress reports on gender equality in selected policy areas in the EU. She studied Sociology at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas (Lithuania), followed by a Ph.D on violence against women. Jolanta has wide experience researching gender equality policies in the EU and globally, measurements of gender equality, gender equality and economy, work-life balance.