Ramona Vijeyarasa

Dr. Ramona Vijeyarasa is one of Australia’s leading experts on the ways in which legal systems address gendered issues, known for her innovative work on quantifying and addressing gender inequality in law. She joined the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology Sydney in 2017 where she pioneered the Gender Legislative Index (GLI), a ground-breaking tool using human evaluators and machine learning to evaluate the gender-responsiveness of laws worldwide. She is widely published on such themes as modern slavery, women’s reproductive rights and paid parental leave. Prior to UTS, she worked for over a decade on women’s rights in international organisations, non-profits and international NGOs, including the Center for Reproductive Rights, the International Organisation for Migration in Vietnam and Ukraine and as head of women’s rights at ActionAid International’s headquarters for six years. Her latest book, Rewriting the Rules: Gender-Responsive Lawmaking for the Twenty-First Century, will be published by University of California Press in January 2026.