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Economic Growth
How can we accurately measure women's work?
Bill and Melinda Gates have highlighted the 'time poverty' that women face doing unpaid work.
Simeen Mahmud is Lead Researcher at the BRAC Institute of Governance and Development at BRAC University in Bangladesh and co-ordinator of its Centre for Gender and Social Transformation. Prior to that, she was Research Director at the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies. She has a background in statistics and demography but her research experience is wide-ranging and includes publications on microcredit, labour markets, women’s empowerment and social mobilisation. She is co-investigator on the ESRC-DFID project on Choice, constraints and the gender dynamics of labour markets in Bangladesh.