Professor Hadas Mandel is the former head of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Tel Aviv University, and since 2017 the Principal Investigator of the ERC-funded (Horizon 2020) project addressing the structural and individual aspects underpinning the development of gender inequality over time and across societies. Her research focuses on the hidden, unconscious, and primarily unintended mechanisms that create, sustain, and preserve gender inequality in society at large, within the family, and in the labor market in particular. Her works on these topics has been published in the American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Demography, Sociological Science, the British Journal of Sociology, European Sociological Review, Sex role, Social Forces and others.