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. 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". until 2017, she was director of the gender studies center at vilnius university, and since 2000, she is a consultant of the inter-ministerial commission on equal opportunities of women and men, lithuania. leinarte drafted the review of the implementation of the beijing declaration and platform for action adopted, at the fourth world conference on women beijing 1995 and participated in drafting the reports of lithuania to cedaw.