Margarita León is an Associate Professor in the politics department of the Universitat Autònoma Barcelona and a senior Research fellow at the Institute of Government and Public Policies (IGOP) of the same university. From 2003 until 2010 she was a lecturer in European social policy (SSPSSR, University of Kent). She was a Marie Curie fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. She holds a PhD from the London School of Economics (2000) and a MA in Sociological Research from the University of Essex (1995). She has co-edited with A.M. Guillén The Spanish Welfare State in European Context (2011 Ashgate) and edited The Transformation of Care in European Societies (2014, Palgrave). She has published in many international journals such as Journal of European Social Policy, Comparative European Politics, South European Society and Politics, and European Journal of Women Studies