Olga Gorodetskaya

Olga Gorodetskaya is a Research Fellow at the Research Institute for the Evaluation of Public Policies (FBK-IRVAPP). She holds a PhD in Sociology and Social Research from the University of Trento, Italy, with a thesis on gender inequalities in Italian academia.

During her PhD, her research focused on the relationship between career progression and fertility behaviour in academic careers. Alongside her doctoral work, she contributed as a researcher to the project Parenting in Academia: The Productivity of UniTrento Parents Before, During and After the Pandemic. She also spent three months as a visiting researcher at Centre LIVES, the Swiss Centre of Expertise in Life Course Research, in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Her main research interests focus on gender inequalities in the labour market from a life-course perspective, with particular attention to the intersection between family and career domains. More recently, her work has expanded to the impact evaluation of family policies and educational interventions, as well as to emerging challenges related to the rise of AI and its implications for social inequalities. Her work is strongly rooted in quantitative analysis, empirical survey methodology, and policy evaluation.