_In this first part the article, eminent economist and gender rights advocate Vibhuti Patel, former President of the Indian Association for Women’s Studies, cofounder of the Feminist Policy Collective, the first woman to head the Department of Economics at the University of Mumbai, and founder of Asia’s first Centre for Gender Economics, examines how neoliberal globalisation has deepened inequalit…
_In the second part of Economic Globalisation and Women: Issues and Concerns, Vibhuti Patel examines how liberalisation has deepened casualisation, widened inequality, and normalised exploitation in the informal economy. She highlights the feminisation of poverty, the rise of girl child labour, and exploitative models like Tamil Nadu’s Sumangali scheme. Patel shows how globalisation has eroded wel…
Dr. Vibhuti Patel is a feminist scholar and activist who has been part of social movements in India and the Global South since the 1970s. In this article, she traces the evolution of political feminism in India and Asia over the last five decades, highlighting its local struggles, global solidarities, and current crossroads. She reflects on how feminist movements have challenged patriarchal system…
