Prof. Naila Kabeer: Reflections on Researching Women's Empowerment, SOAS, University of London

Naila Kabeer has been Professor of Development Studies at SOAS for the last 3 years. Prior to that she was Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex. She has carried out research, teaching and advisory work in the inter-related fields of gender, social exclusion, labor markets and livelihoods, social protection and citizenship and has published extensively on these topics. Her books include 'Reversed realities; gender hierarchies in development thought', 'The power to choose: labor market decision-making in London and Dhaka', 'Gender and social protection in the informal economy' and the forthcoming 'Organizing women workers in the informal economy: beyond the weapons of the weak'. She is an Associate Editor of Feminist Economics and a member of its Editorial Board. She has recently joined the Feminist Review Trust.