Feminism Beyond Boundaries, May 2018: Women and Budgets in India by Sona Mitra

Sona Mitra works as a Senior Researcher for a public policy think tank- Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability (CBGA). She is an economist by training and has been working on Gender and Development issues for more than a decade now. Her central focus remains on the issues related to the political economy of women and work, trying to understand the subordinate status of female labour in a capitalist economy. However, while working with CBGA, in the last decade she has simultaneously looked at public policy issues concerning women, using the budgetary lens. She also teaches as an adjunct faculty at the Ambedkar University, Delhi