Dalia Leinarte was Chairperson (2017-2018) and Vice-chairperson (2015-2016) of the UN CEDAW Committee, also Chair of the Working Group in charge of drafting General Recommendation No 38 Trafficking in Women and Girls in the Context of Global Migration, adopted in 2020. In 2018 Apolitical selected her among The Most Influential People in Global Policy-Gender Equality Top 100.
Leinarte writes extensively on women and family in Imperial Russia, and former Soviet Union. She is an author of Family and the State in Soviet Lithuania. Gender, Law and Society (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021), The Lithuanian Family in its European Context, 1800-1914: Marriage, Divorce and Flexible Communities (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017): 2018 Honorable Mention for the 2018 AABS Book Prize Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies, and Adopting and Remembering Soviet Reality: Life Stories of Lithuanian Women, 1945-1970 (Brill, 2010).
Leinarte previously won a Fulbright award (2002-2003) and American Association of University Women (AAUW) international scholarship (2005 - 2006).
