Dynamics of Gender Inequality in the Middle East & North Africa

Room: Alumni Lecture Theatre, Paul Webley Wing (Senate House)

This lecture is free to attend and no registration is required. But please note that seating is on a first-come first-serve basis.

The Dynamics of Gender Inequality in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia

Speakers: Hannah Bargawi (SOAS), Hassan Hakimian (SOAS) and Massoud Karshenas (SOAS)

Researchers at SOAS are leading a Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) that is intended on identifying innovative disciplinary and inter-disciplinary research agendas on female labour and dynamics of inequality in developing countries. This seminar is an opportunity to find out more about the network, its activities and avenues for future research. This network is concerned with gender and dynamics of inequality in three world regions, with specific focus on (a) the interplay of economic structures, policies and institutions as the determinants of women’s access to employment and (b) the patterns of women’s economic participation as key drivers of inequality.

Read more: https://www.soas.ac.uk/economics/events/31jan2018-the-dynamics-of-gender-inequality-in-the-middle-east-north-africa-and-south-asia.html

Organised by: Department of Economics, SOAS

For further information please contact Hannah Bargawi: hb19@soas.ac.uk

LMEI contact email: Aki Elborzi ae6@soas.ac.uk

Photo credit: 'Hundreds of Iranian woman demonstrate in front of presidential office against the clergy order for all Iranian female employees of government offices to put on veils at work, in Tehran, July 5, 1980'. (AFP)