Magdalena León de Leal

Magdalena León (, León Gómez; pen name, Magdalena León de Leal; Barichara, Santander, June 30, 1939) is a Colombian feminist sociologist specializing in social research and women's studies. Trained with the founders of Colombian sociology, Orlando Fals Borda and Camilo Torres Restrepo, she transferred the rhetorical and discursive framework to the analysis of empirical reality using the survey, systematization, and data analysis to learn the reality on the ground, not only of Colombia but also from Latin America.

She has worked in the formulation of policies aimed at the advancement of women. She is the author of ''La mujer y el desarrollo en Colombia'' (English: Women and development in Colombia) (1977) recognized as the work that inaugurated the issue of women and development in Colombia from a national perspective both for its incidence in the academic field and for its impact on public policy formulation. Also noteworthy is her research establishing a gender approach on redistribution policies that allowed the recognition of women's work in the rural and agrarian world, claiming land ownership for women as a key to development and the fight against poverty. Provided by Wikipedia