Dr Fatou Sow (Senegal) is a social scientist who graduated in Sociology from the University of Dakar, the Université Paris-Sorbonne, and the Université Paris-Diderot. She researched and taught courses on social and gender issues in Dakar and Paris. She was a trainer at the CODESRIA. She was also President of the Réseau de recherche en santé de la reproduction en Afrique francophone (1992-1996), Coordinator for Francophone Africa for DAWN (1995-2007)., and International Coordinator of the International Solidarity Network Women Living under Muslim Laws. Her research interests and activism are centered on women’s human rights. Her main publications include Femmes sénégalaises à l’horizon 2015, with M. Diouf (1993) ; Engendering African Social Sciences, with A. Imam and A. Mama, 1997; Les Sénégalaises en chiffres, with M. Guèye et al, 2000 ; Notre corps, notre santé : Santé et sexualité des femmes en Afrique subsaharienne, with C. Bop et al. 2004 ; Langue identités et enjeux de la recherche féministe, F. Sow et al. 2009 ; Le sexe de la mondialisation : Genre, classe, race et nouvelle division du travail, with J. Falquet, H. Hirata, D. Kergoat, B. Labari, F. Sow, N. Le Feuvre et al., 2010 ; Genre et Fondamentalismes, F. Sow (ed), 2018.