Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey Toward Equity

Abstract

Jayati Ghosh taught economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi for nearly thirty-five years and is currently Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA. She has authored and/or edited twenty books and more than 200 scholarly articles. Recent books include: The Making of a Catastrophe: Covid-19 and the Indian Economy (Aleph Books forthcoming); Never Done and Poorly Paid: Women’s Work in Globalising India (Women Unlimited 2009); the co-edited Handbook of Alternative Theories of Economic Development (Elgar 2016); Demonetisation Decoded (Routledge 2017; co-authored); and Informal Women Workers in the Global South Economy (Routledge 2021).