Pandemic, Policy, and Patriarchy: Process of Gender De-equalization

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Pandemic, Policy, and Patriarchy: Process of Gender De-equalization

Pandemic, Policy, and Patriarchy: Process of Gender De-equalization

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The State of Gender Equality – #GenderGaps with Prof Ritu Dewan on Pandemic, Policy, and Patriarchy: Process of Gender De-equalization.

Greetings from the Impact and Policy Research Institute (IMPRI), New Delhi!
On behalf of the Gender Impact Studies Center (GISC) at IMPRI, GenDev Centre for Research and Innovation and Delhi Post Newswe invite you to a IMPRI #WebPolicyTalk –

The State of Gender Equality 
#GenderGaps 

Details of the #WebPolicyTalk:
Date: December 4, 2020; Friday
Time: 18:15 IST (GMT+5:30)
Platform: Zoom and Facebook live

Speaker:
Ritu-Dewan
Prof Ritu Dewan, Vice President, Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE)

Prof. Ritu Dewan is the Vice President of the Indian Society of Labour Economics, Visiting Professor at the Institute of Human Development, Trustee of The India Forum, and President of the Indian Association for Women’s Studies (2014-17). She was, till her retirement, the first-ever woman Director of the Department of Economics, University of Mumbai, and the founder-member of the first Centre for Gender Economics in Asia. 

She has over 150 publications, including 40 books and monographs, encompassing a wide range of issues including Development Economics, Gender Studies & Gender Economics, Rural and Urban Development, Infrastructure, Labour Markets, Environmental Displacement, Peace Studies, etc. She was a member of the Feminist Economists’ Group for Engendering the 12thand 11th Five Year Plans as well as of the sub-group on ‘Gender and Macro-policies’ appointed by the Planning Commission, Government of India. She is also Consultant to UNDP, UN Women, ILO, , World Bank, Asian Development Bank, World Wildlife Fund, Action Aid, etc.

Her other honorary posts include National Executive member of the Pakistan India People’s Forum for Peace and Democracy, Honorary Advisor to the Kashmir Foundation for Peace and Development Studies, and Board of Trustees of the Centre for Budget Governance and Accountability. She is closely associated with training and capacity-building related specially to gender budgeting and gender issues, and has conducted numerous workshops for the Central Government and also several state governments including Jammu & Kashmir, Maharashtra, Goa, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, etc.

Her research focus – which interlinks academics, advocacy and action – is the result of issues related to the marginalised, the last two focusing on theoretical-empirical analysis of Paid-UnPaid Work and Demonetisation. 

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04/12/2020 @ 06:15 PM to
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