BANGLADESH: The Gender Paradox
An online panel discussion on the recently published 'Renegotiating Patriarchy: Gender, Agency and the Bangladesh Paradox' (2024), focusing on the country's remarkable pro-poor & gender-equitable social progress despite poverty, poor governance, patriarchy and rising Islamic conservatism.
SPEAKERS
~ Dr Sajeda Amin (@sajedaamin) is an independent researcher with research interests in gender, work, poverty & family in the developing world; until recently, she was Senior Associate for the Poverty, Gender & Youth Program at the Population Council, New York.
~ Dr Urvashi Butalia is an author, founder of Zubaan Books (India's premier feminist publishing house), Reader at the College of Vocational Studies, University of Delhi & Visiting Faculty at the Young India Program, Ashoka University, India.
~ Naila Kabeer (@N_Kabeer) is Professor of Gender & Development at LSE, Faculty Associate at LSE International Inequalities Institute, and currently Richard von Weiszäcker Fellow at Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin, and author of 'Renegotiating Patriarchy: Gender, Agency and the Bangladesh Paradox' (2024).
~ Dr Ayesha Khan (@ayeshanorakhan) is Senior Research Fellow in Gender Equality & Social Inclusion at the Overseas Development Institute in London, and is author of 'Women's Movement in Pakistan: Activism, Islam & Democracy' (2018).
DISCUSSANT
~ Hilary Standing is Professor & Emeritus Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, an expert on gender and equity of health systems and has studied and published extensively on Bangladesh.
CHAIR
~ Dr Nilanjan Sarkar is Deputy Director, LSE South Asia Centre (@SAsiaLSE).
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This event is part of our 'Fact & Fiction' series, and is in collaboration with LSE Press.
