Cañamero, 1953, graduated in Mathematics from the Complutense University of Madrid (1977), completed a Master's in Statistics at Harvard University (1991) after obtaining a Fulbright scholarship and specialized in the study of Nordic welfare systems at the universities of Stockholm (2006), Iceland (2009) and Aalborg (2015).
She has been a teacher of mathematics, and has been part of the Corps of Actuaries, Statisticians and Economists of Social Security and the Department of Socioeconomic Studies of the Ministry of Labor. In 1993 she joined the Institute of Fiscal Studies and from 1999 to 2002 she was Administrator of the Directorate of Social Policy of the OECD. Since 2003 she has held the position of Head of Research Studies at the Institute of Fiscal Studies.
Feminist political activism has been a fundamental axis of her life that has permeated her professional and academic work. She specializes in the analysis of public and fiscal policies from a gender perspective.
Currently, her main militant work is carried out in the Platform for Equal and Non-transferable Permits for Birth and Adoption (PIINA).