As part of a visit to the ANU Professor Armelle Le Bras-Chopard will participate in a seminar for students, in addition to her public lecture. 

Professor Le Bras-Chopard (University of Versailles) has written a number of works on women and politics and more generally on attitudes to women in history. She has also been engaged in public policy, particularly on the situation of women in education. For a decade (1999-2009) she was in charge of a unit within the French Ministry of Education on Gender Equality in Higher Education.

At the University of Versailles she has been a Deputy Vice-Chancellor for International Education. For a number of years she has also been a local government councillor and Deputy-Mayor responsible for culture in the community of Guyancourt, near Versailles. In this capacity she has organised a yearly event on gender equality, entitled 'Le temps des femmes' (The time of women).

Professor Le Bras-Chopard's visit is organised with the support of the Gender Institute and the French Research Cluster.