Category: Media
Panel discussion with Amartya Sen, David Lewis, Juli Huang and Naila Kabeer Unexpected social progress in Bangladesh
A panel discussion on why Bangladesh reports remarkable progress on social development and gender equality despite low per capita income and poor governance http://www.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/channels/publicLecturesAndEvents/player.aspx?id=3522
Launch of Japanese translation of ‘The Power to choose: Bangladeshi women and labour market decisions in London and Dhaka’
Launch of Japanese translation of ‘The power to choose: Bangladeshi women and labour market decisions in London and Dhaka’ in Sunkyu Civic Hall, Tokyo at 6.30 – 8.30 on 22nd April 2016
Are women suffering the greatest injustice in human history? Interviews with feminists around the world
In this exclusive interview series, we talk to: Leymah Gbowee (Nobel Peace Prize Winner), Leslee Udwin (Director of ‘India’s Daughter’), Sheryl WuDunn (Co-Founder, Half the Sky Movement), Dr. Anne Summers (Feminist, Author), Professor Michael...
Blog: Why its time to put gender into the inequality discussion
LSE’s Naila Kabeer introduces a new issue of Gender and Development, which she co-edited.The development industry has focused mainly on the question of absolute poverty over the past decades of neo-liberal reform. Given the...
“New insights on economics and gender” Panel discussion at conference on Women and Girls Rising (Roosevelt Institute, New York)
In September 2014, the Roosevelt Institute hosted the Women and Girls Rising: Historical Reflections and Future Prospects conference at the Ford Foundation in New York City. The two-day convening was an opportunity for policymakers,...
Presentation to the International Falling Walls Conference Berlin 2015: Bringing down the wall of gender inequality
One of the most promising proposals for global economic growth seems simple: increase gender equality in the workplace worldwide, and a $28 trillion benefit may soon follow. This assertion that greater equality will improve...
Blog: Gender equality, the MDGs and the SDGs
Following the formal announcement of the Sustainable Development Goals, Naila Kabeer reflects on lessons from the Millennium Development Goals through a feminist lens, which she argues were weakened by their very narrow interpretation of women’s...
