Drude Dahlerup (born 3 February 1945 in Aarhus, Denmark) is a Danish-Swedish professor of Political Science at Stockholm University.
She is an international consultant on the empowerment of women in politics and a specialist on the implementation of gender quota systems.
Dahlerup and her research team developed the global web site on the use of electoral gender quotas around the world, www.quotaproject.org.
Drude Dahlerup was a co-founder of the Redstockings, the Women's Liberation Movement in Denmark, which started 1970.
Among her edited books in English are The New Women’s Movement: Feminism and Political Power in Europe and the U.S.A (Sage 1986); Women, Quotas and Politics (Routledge 2006) and Breaking Male Dominance in old Democracies (with Monique Leyenaar, Oxford Univ.
Her book Has Democracy Failed Women?,[4] was also published in Danish (Demokrati uden kvinder?)