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Aim: To understand women's experiences navigating economic claims in family disputes, and identify key moments of friction and potential intervention for equitable outcomes.

Method: Ethnography, In-depth interviews, Archival research

Key Findings/Insights: 

Moral Framing of Money: Women have to be seen as "deserving" of support. Economic claims are seen as moral pleas rather than rights.

Opaque Processes: Many women were unclear of what their rights are or what to expect out of the mediation processes.

Inconsistent outcomes: Resolutions and decisions widely varied, depending on a host of factors and discretion.

Impact: A nuanced understanding of how institutional and relational dynamics shape women's access to wealth and justice. These findings have been shared at many conferences and working groups.  

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PUBLICATIONS:

Invisible Money and Gendered Dispossession: Relational Work in Matrimonial Disputes in India (Social Problems) examines the meaning and role of women's money in matrimonial disputes highlighting the gendered and temporal nature of relational work. I argue that women's money— like women's labor is also rendered invisible. This article is the recipient of the SSSP Gender Division Best Student Paper Award and has also received an honorable mention for the ASA Sex and Gender Section Sally Hacker Graduate Student Paper Award. 

https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spaf012

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Gendered Wealth and the Challenges of Child Support in India (Socio-Economic Review) examines the challenges embedded in the legal processes of securing child support in India. Drawing from a qualitative study of family disputes, I reveal how gendered institutional practices shape child support negotiations often to the detriment of women.

​https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwaf008

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OTHER RESEARCH

​Women's Employment Contextual Changes in Women's Employment, and  Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) in India

Aim: To understand the relationship between women's employment at individual and state level and IPV

Methods: Multi-level statistical modeling using DHS data

Key Findings/Insights:

Context matters: The individual and state level context matters and probability of IPV increases with women’s labor force participation, both at the individual and state level.

Impact: Findings indicate that scrutinizing contextual changes in research related to intimate partner violence is imperative. Policy and advocacy efforts should take these factors into consideration.

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