GENDER & LABOUR MARKETS IN SOUTH ASIA: FEMINIST ECONOMICS PERSPECTIVES

South Asia Centre, London School of Economics

Past Event

Thursday, Nov 25, 2021
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM (UTC)

Registration Required

Hosts

South Asia Centre, London School of Economics

Languages

English
English

Channels

Gender

Virt India

Three feminist economists reflect on: the interaction between economics & culture in the segmentation of labour markets in Bangladesh; factors explaining frequency of entry-exit in women’s labour force participation in India; and how the ‘recognition’ of women’s work in agriculture in Pakistan feeds into policy redistribution.
Speakers: Ashwini Deshpande (@AshwDeshpande) is Professor of Economics, Ashoka University, Sonipat, and author of The Grammar of Caste: Economic Discrimination in Contemporary India (new edn, 2019); Haris Gazdar (@HarisGazdar) is Senior Researcher at the Collective for Social Science Research, Karachi.
Discussant: Naila Kabeer (@N_Kabeer) is Professor of Gender & Development at LSE, author of Gender & Social Protection Strategies in the Informal Economy (2014), and co-editor (with Caroline Sweetman) of Gender and Inequalities (2018). 
Chair: Nilanjan Sarkar is Deputy Director, LSE South Asia Centre (@SAsiaLSE).
 

 

Hosts

South Asia Centre, London School of Economics