Currently Reading. HIGHLY recommend. "No Laughing Matter" by Unnamati Syama Sundar gives us a peek at how Ambedkar was depicted in his time by news outlets, many which were openly castist at the time. Ambedkar is… instagram.com/p/Bxpz1UTJk40/…

Focus groups are crucial for a researcher to learn what to ask. When I started my Fulbright year, the main question was "As womens' education levels increase in India, why aren't women joining the laborforce?" I… instagram.com/p/B1XC46nBw9C/…

This perfectly states something I had started seeing during my fieldwork. Quality control on private education can be quite difficult too and it reduces the effort put into improving public education. I would love to see more research work on the changing dynamics of education

I fear doing this by mistake. Hemce the extensive time spent on lit reviews and requests for feedback from mentors. Please call me out if I do this by accident!

I am fed up too. And are we to gather from this particular paper that the steady decline in rural women’s labour force participation in India reflects a steady decline in their sense of self efficacy?

A very thought provoking question. I think its hard to measure empowerment as it is, and then trying to compare measures of empowerment across genders in patriarchal societies is not as straightforward as comparing across other identity factors like SES, Race, Caste or Nation

Finally! Work being done to fix bias in algorithms. I have a huge fear that AI means our robots learn to be racist just like people. More of this bias-fixing needs to be done in any human-computer interface systems

This wonderful book by Sonja K. Foss and William Waters has got me kick started on the writing process. They have a chapter dedicated to behaviors that one does to cause delays. I do EVERY single one. Things like: -… instagram.com/p/B5wRG0tBZ_y/…

This is unbelievable

Why Brock Turner Believes He Isn’t a Rapist slcfeminist.com/why-brock-turn… via SLC Feminist

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