In the late 1980s, she initiated the introduction of women's history at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), where she is professor emerita.
[6] Upon her return to Belgium in 1989,[4] she formed a research group on women's history made up of historians, demographers, sociologists and political scientists, thus introducing this field to the university.
[9] In 1995, Gubin founded and co-directs Carhif, the Centre d'Archives et de Recherches pour l'Histoire des Femmes.
[6] She has worked to promote the teaching of the role of women in secondary and university education and published a manual for teachers in 2013, with Claudine Marissal, Catherine Jacques and Anne Morelli, Femmes et hommes dans l'histoire.
[4] The first is the publication in 2006 of the Dictionnaire des Femmes belges - XIXe et XXe siècles (Dictionary of Belgian Women - 19th and 20th centuries) containing more than 400 biographies.
[12] The second, co-directed with the Belgian historian Catherine Jacques, is the l'Encyclopédie d'histoire des Femmes en Belgique - XIXe et XXe siècles (Encyclopedia of Women's History in Belgium - 19th and 20th centuries).