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Accidental Feminism: Gender Parity and Selective Mobility Among India’s Professional Elite

Date and time

Monday 23. May 2022 at 13:30 to 15:00

Registration Deadline

Sunday 22. May 2022 at 16:00

Location

Kilen Ks48, Kilevej 14 A/B, 2000 Frederiksberg Kilen Ks48
Kilevej 14 A/B
2000 Frederiksberg

Accidental Feminism: Gender Parity and Selective Mobility Among India’s Professional Elite

Event Description

In this seminar, Dr Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen will present their new book “Accidental Feminism” (Princeton University Press) with commentary from Maj Grasten (MPP) and Megan Tobias Neely (IOA).



Accidental Feminism shows how elite law firms in India offer a surprising oasis for women within a hostile, predominantly male industry. Less than 10 percent of the country’s lawyers are female, however women in the most prestigious firms are significantly represented at both entry and partnership level. Elite workspaces are notorious for being unfriendly to new actors, so what allows for aberration in certain workspaces?

Drawing from observations and interviews with more than 130 elite professionals, Swethaa examines how a range of underlying mechanisms - gendered socialisation and essentialism, family structures and dynamics, and firm and regulatory histories - afford certain professionals egalitarian outcomes that are not available to their local and global peers.

Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen is a socio-legal scholar at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. Their research examines the intersections between law, globalisation and stratification from a critical feminist perspective. Particularly, across a range of sites and different levels of analysis, Swethaa’s work interrogates how law and legal institutions create, continue, and counter different kinds of socio-economic inequalities.

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Organizer Contact Information

Copenhagen Business School
Phone: +45 3815 3815
bisplatforms@cbs.dk

Organizer Contact Information

Copenhagen Business School
Phone: +45 3815 3815
bisplatforms@cbs.dk