Dora Beatriz Barrancos (born 15 August 1940) is an Argentine researcher, sociologist, historian, feminist, and politician.

She was part of the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) board of directors until May 2019, when she resigned in protest over a budget reduction that severely affected the institution.

[3] In September 1955, a coup d'etat took place, overthrowing the constitutional government of Juan Perón and beginning a military dictatorship, the self-styled Revolución Libertadora.

[4] After the coup d'etat of 24 March 1976 overthrew the constitutional government of Isabel Perón, Barrancos immediately lost her job as a sociologist at the Comprehensive Medical Attention Program (PAMI).

However, she could not go into exile because she had two very young daughters from her first marriage, and she had to wait for a judge's decision to give her permission to travel with the girls.

That day, Barrancos and her second husband Eduardo decided to leave the girls in their father's care and escape to Belo Horizonte, Brazil, where he had acquaintances.

She coordinated the master's degree program in social and cultural studies at the National University of La Pampa's Faculty of Humanities.

In the 2010s she had a rapprochement with Peronism after a series of civilist measures: the adoption law, the legitimacy of the absolute equality of legitimate and illegitimate children, as well as divorce.

[1] Considered a feminist, she has worked towards the empowerment of women, favoring policies promoted by Lázaro Cardenas in Mexico, Rafael Correa in Ecuador, and Raúl Alfonsín and Cristina Férnandez in Argentina.