Tània Verge is Associate Professor of Gender and Politics at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona). Since 2014 she is the director of the Gender Equality Unit of this university. She has published extensively in the fields of political representation and political parties, with focus on the gendered informal institutions underpinning party politics and parliaments and on resistance to the adoption and implementation of gender equality policy. She is currently advising the Parliament of Catalonia in the elaboration of its gender action plan. She is the co-convenor of the Gender-Focused Parliamentary Institutions Research Network (GenParlNet).