Autor/-in: Naila Kabeer

Naila Kabeer (FAcSS) is Professor of Gender and Development in the Department of International Development at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and on the faculty of the International Inequalities Institute at LSE. She has carried out several years of interdisciplinary research on gendered inequalities in relation to labour markets, livelihoods, social protection and collective action. Her publications include Reversed Realities: Gender Hierarchies in Development Thought (Verso), The Power to Choose: Bangladeshi Women and Labour Market Decision-Making in London and Dhaka (Verso) and Mainstreaming Gender and Social Protection in the Informal Economy (Commonwealth Secretariat). She has worked in an advisory capacity with a number of international and bilateral agencies as well as national and international non-governmental organisations. She is on the editorial boards of Feminist Economics and Gender and Development and on the international advisory boards of Development and Change and the Canadian Journal of Development Studies. She is also on the advisory boards of the United Nations Research on Social Development (UNRISD) and the United Nations University - Institute for Global Health and has recently joined the UN Women's Leaders Network.