Dr Raffaele Guetto is research fellow at the Department of Sociology and Social Research of the University of Milano-Bicocca. He holds a PhD from the University of Trento, where his doctoral dissertation has been awarded as best PhD thesis in Sociology (2011-2012) and he taught courses on the BA and MA level on social policy, education and social inequality. His main research interests include the structural and cultural determinants of female labour market participation and family behaviours, immigration, welfare and labour market studies and social stratification. Since 2009 he has been member of the EQUALSOC Network of Excellence.