Valentina Bodrug-Lungu

She is also Associate Professor in the Faculty of Psychology and Pedagogy at Moldova State University and pioneered gender studies as a discipline there.

[3] In 2006 she co-produced the Shadow Report submitted to the 36th Session of Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women.

[13][12] Her work has also been cited as part of a group of scholarship that argues that gender identity is impacted by the school environment, as well as the family.

[12] When discussing the gender wage gap, Bodrug-Lungu has described how the country is caught between "patriarchy, traditionalism and modernism".

[17] In 2012 she visited Austria at the invitation of Südwind Association to discuss the potential for closer relationships between the countries.