Gender Justice and the Wellbeing Economy

The Programme is led by Professor Naila Kabeer (Director) and Dr. Ania Plomien (Deputy Director) as part of the International Inequalities Institute.

Transnational 'Anti-Gender' Movements and Resistance: Narratives and Interventions

Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and LSE Knowledge Exchange and Impact. 

The research network mapped the narrative building blocks – the political grammars, conceptual vocabularies, rhetoric, figures, and temporalities – of both ‘anti-gender ideology’ interventions and the political struggles and solidarities engendered in resistance.

LSE Impact Blog: In a time of global anti-gender politics, research and activism also needs to be transnational 

Reflecting on the challenges facing gender activists and researchers in Hungary, Dorottya Rédai outlines how interactions between researchers and activists could be more productive and why taking a transnational perspective is increasingly important.

Ethical and Methodological Issues in Sex Work Research

LSE Research Showcase 

Drawing on her ethnographic research with sex worker organisations in the Philippines and Singapore, Dr Sharmila Parmanand traces her methodological journey, with a focus on the ethical considerations involved in sex work research and her reflections on how to minimise hierarchies in knowledge production; develop creative research methods that do not merely yield "academic data" but also provide a space for validation, politicisation, and psychic relief for participants; recognise the intellectual contributions of actors outside academia; and build more reciprocal research relationships

Troubling Anti-gender Attacks: Transnational Activist & Academic Perspectives

Funded by the Open Society University Network.

This collaborative initiative builds on a broader book project entitled Transnational Anti-Gender Politics, published as part of Palgrave’s ‘Thinking Gender in Transnational Times’ series. The OSUN grant supported the organisation of a virtual roundtable discussion with leading scholars and activists in the field and published a commentary report that summarises the key arguments and ideas discussed.

Jill Craigie: Film Pioneer

Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, wih in-kind support from the BFI and BEHP and regional arts venues The Arts Institute (Plymouth), The Forum (Norwich) and the Stanley Spencer Gallery (Cookham). 

Jill Craigie: Film Pioneer is a three-year research project exploring the career of Jill Craigie, one of the first women to make documentaries in the UK. Her work, often overlooked in film history, encompassed innovative films, a feature, journalism and writing for the screen and as well as a passionate history of the women's suffrage movement. 

COVID-19: Reflections on the Pandemic 

Writing from our faculty and PhD students about the politics of COVID-19.

Gender, Inequality and Power Commission

The Gender, Inequality and Power Commission's update on its work: Confronting Gender Inequality in Uncertain Times. In this update, we review developments affecting gender inequality since the launch of the Gender, Inequality and Power Commission report in 2015.

Choice, constraints and the gender dynamics of labour markets in Bangladesh

Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.

Labour markets are recognised as key institutional routes through which the benefits of growth are distributed across populations. Moreover, empirical research suggests that women’s access to labour market opportunities, particularly those which offer predictable incomes and ‘decent’ working conditions, can strengthen their voice and agency within the family and in the wider community. Yet, despite high rates of growth in recent decades, marked gender disparities in labour market outcomes persist across much of South Asia. These disparities are all the more puzzling in the context of Bangladesh. While it is one of the poorer countries in the region, it has not only shared in its high growth rates but has made more rapid progress in other aspects of gender equality, eg health and education. This project combines different research methods in order to carry out a detailed investigation into the interactions between individual choice, cultural norms and economic structures which might explain persisting gender disparities in labour market outcomes in the Bangladesh context as well as how these interactions might vary for men and women from different social groups and geographical locations.