
Where we work
South Asia provides a valuable opportunity to investigate women’s struggles. The region has witnessed rapid and large changes over the last decade, including urbanisation, rising employment precarity, new electoral laws and regime changes, shifts in social norms, and the spread of digital technology.
Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan have undergone rapid and significant structural change through divergent political and economic pathways, yet remain deeply and similarly patriarchal in their cultural norms and institutions.

News & Opinion
Muslim women’s journey towards legal justice
Noorjehan Safia Niaz is the founder of the Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA), which is one of the SuPWR case studies in India. In this blog post, Noorjehan shares her […]
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News & Opinion
When the screen becomes the ‘field’: methodological reflections in a time of Covid-19
As we write this blog post, we continue to grapple with the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in India, losing people in close quarters and with ‘work’ continuing as […]
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