A researcher working on gender, care and economic justice
I hold an MSc in Gender, Development and Globalisation from the London School of Economics (Distinction) and a BSc in Economics from the Institute of Business Administration. My masters thesis reconceptualised human capital development by treating stay-at-home mothers' unpaid care work as a structural determinant of their daughters' educational mobility in Pakistan.
That thesis is where my research begins: with social reproduction, and with the economics of the home. Capital has always needed someone to reproduce the workforce, and that work (overwhelmingly women's) sustains economies while sitting outside what they count.
I am following that argument into informality. As inflation and debt-driven austerity break down the single-earner household, women are pushed toward home-based and informal work; work that is celebrated as flexibility while compounding the invisibility of the care they already carry.
At Data-Pop Alliance I delve into this subject through various workflows, including the Towards Caring Cities Project with UN Women and Feminist Urban Design: A Gender-inclusive Framework for Cities with CHANGE. There I work both as a project manager and mixed-methods researcher.
Recent writing appears in St Antony's International Review, Gender<ed> Thoughts, the LSE Review of Books, Data-Pop Alliance and the Fund for Peace.
