Ex-chair, Hungarian Women’s Lobby, Member of European Women’s Lobby Task Force on Central Eastern European, Baltic and Balkan States, Hungary
During her professional carreer, Borbála Juhász worked as a teacher, a women’s historian, a gender researcher, a civil servant specialised in gender equality, as well as an NGO volunteer and employee. She was on the board of the European Women’s Lobby since 2008, becoming its vice president in 2014 until 2016. She was the chair of the Hungarian Women’s Lobby from 2012 to 2017 and the member of the Management Committee of Social Platform from 2015 to 2017. Her main fields of expertise: women’s history, promoting women’s political participation, gender mainstreaming and equal opportunity policies. She is a dedicated feminist with a passion for the women’s cause. She lives in Budapest as a teacher, with her 13 year old daughter. Borbála Juhász graduated in history and English language and literature and English as a Foreign Language teacher at ELTE University, Budapest. Later she got an MA in history at Central European University, Budapest.
motto: “The purpose of all political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of woman and man. These rights are liberty, property, security, and especially resistance to oppression.” (Olympe de Gouges, 1791)
