After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Leinarte became actively involved in the promotion of women's rights and gender equality. Leinarte and her colleague are the first academics to have founded a non-governmental organization for women in Lithuania.[4] The same organization, "Praeities Pėdos" (Traces of the Past), is also among the first Lithuanian organizations to introduce the notion of "women victims of trafficking".[4]
In 2012, Leinarte became the first person from an Eastern European country to be elected to the CEDAW Committee.[5] After serving two years as vice-chair, she was elected as chair of the CEDAW Committee in 2017.[2]
Since 2018 she has been Chair of the CEDAW Committee's Working Group on General Recommendation Trafficking in women and girls in the context of global migration.
During 2018-2020 Leinarte chaired the Working Group in charge of drafting the CEDAW General Recommendation No. 38: Trafficking in Women and Girls in the Context of Global Migration,[6] which contextualized the implementation of the obligations of States Parties to combat all forms of trafficking. The recommendation was adopted in 2020.
Leinarte is currently in the Working Group on Inquiries under UN CEDAW Optional Protocol, she is also UN CEDAW Focal Point for coordination with UN Human Rights Committee and other human rights mechanisms.
Book cover for "The Lithuanian Family in its European Context 1800-1914"(2017)
The Lithuanian Family in its European Context, 1800-1914. Marriage, Divorce and Flexible Communities investigates marriage and divorce in Lithuania in the period from 1800 to 1914, focusing on the interaction between authorized marital behaviour and independent individual choices.[7][8]
Adopting and Remembering Soviet Reality. Life Stories of Lithuanian Women, 1945–1970 consists of ten interviews and two introductory essays: "Conducting Interviews in the Post-Soviet Space" and "Women, Work, and Family in Soviet Lithuania". The book recounts the experiences of Lithuanian women in the postwar years, during the so-called "Khrushchev Thaw" and the beginning of the "Stagnation Era". It explores the strategies these women used to reconcile the demands of work and family, as well as their perceptions of gender roles, marriage and romantic love in Soviet society.[9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]
(2019)The Cross of Officer of the Order for Merits to Lithuania, bestowed by the President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė.[17]
(2018) Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies (AABS), Honorable mention for her book The Lithuanian Family in Its European Context, 1800-1914: Marriage, Divorce and Flexible Communities[18]
(2018) Gender Equality Top 100. The Most Influential People in Global Policy[1]
Family and the State in Soviet Lithuania. Gender, Law and Society. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021
The Lithuanian Family in its European Context, 1800-1914: Marriage, Divorce and Flexible Communities. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017
Cohabitation in Europe: a Revenge of History? Introduction & eds. Dalia Leinarte and Jan Kok. New York: Routledge, 2017
Dalia Leinarte, Kelly Hignett, Melanie Ilic , Corina Snitar and Eszter Zsofia Toth. Women's Experiences of Repression in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, London: Routledge, 2017
The Soviet Past in the Post-Soviet Present, Introduction and eds Melanie Ilic, Dalia Leinarte. New York: Routledge, 2015
Dalia Leinarte. On emotions. The correspondence between Algirdas Julius Greimas and Aleksandra Kasuba, 1988–1992, 2011
Adopting and Remembering Soviet Reality: Life Stories of Lithuanian Women, 1945–1970. Amsterdam, New York: Brill, 2010
Selected articles:
Dalia Leinarte. Cohabitation in imperial Russia: the case of Lithuania // The History of the Family 17(1): 16-3, 2012
Dalia Leinarte. Nationalism and family ideology: The case of Lithuania at the turn of the 20th century, 2006
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