1st Edition
Banking on Equality Women, work and employment in the banking sector in India
1. Introduction: Illusion of Equality 2. Gender at Work: Theorizing gender inequality in the workplace 3. Women's Employment in the Banking Sector: An overview 4. Encouraging Equality or Denying Discrimination? Gendered patterns of work and employment in the banking sector in India 5. The Importance of Being Respectable: The impact of local cultural norms on patterns of gender equality 6. Explaining Gender Inequalities in the Indian Banking Sector: The role of institutional factors 7. Challenging or Coping? Women's reponses to gender inequalities in the Indian banking sector 8. Conclusion
Biography
Supriti Bezbaruah is an independent researcher based in Singapore. She has a PhD in Geography from Queen Mary, University of London; a BA (Hons) degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) from the University of Oxford; and an MSc in Development Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She has previously worked with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in India, the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) in the United Kingdom and the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) in Singapore. Her research interests are centred on gender and development issues, with a particular focus on South Asia.
