Research Projects

CWDS faculty is engaged with research on diverse themes. Faculty research areas reflect engagement with contemporary themes as well as newer areas of concern within the broad framework of CWDS objectives. Research by CWDS faculty combines qualitative and quantitative methods including micro-studies, macro-data sets, oral narratives and ethnography. The broad research areas of faculty currently include:

Globalisation, Women and Work
Democracy, Politics and Governance
Rights of the Child Early Child Marriage
Sex Ratios
Law and systems of justice
Statistics and gender indicators
Migration and Citizenship
Labour, Law and Migration
Women and Violence
Gender and Conflict
Gender and Education
Women and Health
Histories of women’s movements
Women’s Studies and Feminism
Gender and Disability

Research Projects (Completed)

Gender Barriers in STEM Field: An Exploration of the Experiences of the Female Professionals (Funded by ICSSR)
Her Own Words: Stories of Change from Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, and Nagaland (Funded by RLS)
Co-working Spaces and Women: An Exploratory Study (Funded by ICSSR)
Intersections of Ageing and Disability: An Exploratory Study in Delhi. (Funded by ICSSR)
Marginalities: Gendered Intersections (Funded by ICSSR)
Higher Education Institutions and Redressal Mechanisms: An Exploratory Study on the Roles and Functions of Internal Complaints Committees/ Internal Committees (Funded by ICSSR)
The Role of Women in Riparian Vegetation-Based Livelihood in the Border of Delhi and Uttar Pradesh (Funded by ICSSR)
Pathways to Higher Education: A Gendered Analysis (Funded by ICSSR)
Life of North-east Women Workers and their Health Challenges: A study in a Metropolitan City, India (Funded by ICSSR
Svanidhi Yojana and the Question of Women’s Self-Employment: A Study of North Delhi (Funded by ICSSR)
राष्ट्रवाद और स्त्री-प्रश्न: चाँद पत्रिका के संदर्भ में (Funded by ICSSR)

Research Projects (Ongoing)

Endometriosis Voices: Women’s Everyday Lives and Treatment Experiences in Cities of India (Funded by ICSSR)
Gender and Green Enterprises: An analysis of Female Entrepreneurs’ Experiences in Green Businesses (Funded by ICSSR)
Urban Insecurity, Migration and Social Protection: Mapping Access, Identity, and Exclusion Across Indian Cities (Funded by ICSSR)
Social and Economic Attributes of Time Allocation and Time Poverty of Women (Funded by ICSSR)
Disease, Disability and Healthy Ageing in Rural Delhi (Funded by ICSSR)
Engendering Change: Exploring the interlinkages between Marriage, Disability, Sexuality and Knowledge Building in India from a Women’s Studies perspective (with support from the Ford Foundation)
Digitization of Conference Documents
Oral History Project: From Memory to History
Re-examining Muslim Women’s Political Participation: Equality, Difference and Subjectivity’ (Funded by ICSSR)
Intersectional Identities and Sexual Harassment: A systematic review of intersectional studies in Higher education institutions (Funded by ICSSR)
Reading the Ecology and Folkloric Rituals of Sundarbans through the Story of its Deities (Funded by ICSSR)
Engendering A Count on Engineering Education: An Account (Funded by ICSSR)
Self-reported Health and Well-being: A case of migrant students from North-East in Delhi (Funded by ICSSR)
Opportunities and Challenges of Women in Street Vending Work: A Study of Burari (North Delhi) (Funded by ICSSR)
औपनिवेशिक भारत में ‘स्त्री प्रश्न’ की रचना: प्राच्यवादी और आंग्लवादी दृष्टियों का आलोचनात्मक अवलोकन (Funded by ICSSR)

VMMF short-term Research Projects

Reading Rural Change: Kudumbashree in Gender Budgets, and the Feminisation of Agriculture in Kerala
Gendered Labour and Violence in GMO Rice Cultivation in Assam’s River Islands
Tracking Rural Women’s Paid and Unpaid Agricultural Work and Resilience: Study in Beed District, Maharashtra
Engagement of Women Labour and Livelihoods in Saree Refurbishing Micro-Industries in Kumardhubi Township, Jharkhand
From Helpers to Smallholders: State Policies, Women’s Collectives, and the Sustenance of Women Farmer Producer Collectives in Rural Rajasthan