Saida Waheed Gender Initiative (SWGI) is a centre at LUMS, which advances gender as a critical lens for understanding society, culture, and politics. It works on the premise that neither an account of our world nor a politics for the future is possible without reckoning with gender.
Saida Waheed Gender Initiative
About SWGI
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The Saida Waheed Gender Initiative is governed by a Steering Committee of LUMS faculty, which meets at least once per month to review activities and envision the Initiative's direction and growth. Both the Steering Committee and the Advisory Committee are chaired by the Faculty Director.
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Saida Waheed
The Saida Waheed Gender Initiative is named in honour of a female pioneer of the Pakistan movement. Born in Gujranwala in 1917, Begum Saida Waheed assisted Begum Rana Liaquat Ali Khan in the formation of the All Pakistan Women’s Association in 1949.
Talks
Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality (Book Talk)
Collecting Earth
Designing Technologies for Economic and Social Empowerment
Dagh Dagh Ujala (A Stained Dawn) – Film Screening & Discussion
Violence and Power in Academic Work
Do Inheritance Reforms Increase Women’s Access and Control over Land? Evidence from Punjab (Pakistan)
Civic Engagement and Enterprise Development through Women Community Organizations: A Case Study of TRDP Socio-economic Development Program
Conceptualising Digital Colonialism
Encouraging Female Graduates to Enter the Labor Force: Evidence from a Role Model Intervention in Pakistan
The Transgender Truth: Dispelling Myths, Centering Empathy
Beyond Bondage: Hari Women’s Communities of Struggle
Visible Outside, Invisible Inside: The Power of Patriarchy on Female Protest Leaders in Conflict and Violence-Affected Settings
Negotiating Adulthood: Women’s Education, Work and Family Formation in Rural Pakistan
How Women and Men Search for Partners: Evidence from Newspaper Advertisements
Exploring the Intersections of Gender, Energy and Space Use
The Net of Kinship: Mothers, Daughters, and the Webs Caste Weaves in Pakistan
Promoting Gender Justice on Global Garment Supply Chains
Censorship, Progressive Literature, and Secular Nationalism in Late Colonial India and Pakistan
Care in Feminist Spaces: Myths and Monoliths
Gendering Technology
Intersections of Hostility at the Workplace
Salt and Sponge: Eugenics, Women's Welfare, and the Genesis of Family Planning Programs in Pakistan
Auntologies: Queer Aesthetics and South Asian Aunties
Forging Gendered Subjects: The Cultural Politics of Education in Pakistan
Gender and the Politics of Data Work in Frontline Health
Conditional Cash Transfers and Maternal Health: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Pakistan
Impact of COVID-19 on Women in Informal Work across South Asia
Patriarchal Violence and the Policy Landscape
Income Inequality under Covid-19
Exploring Feminism and Fun through Film
SWGI – MHRC – Kashf Conference: Gender, Inequality and Microfinance
Pakistan’s Health Sector: Gaps and Innovations
Intersection of Caste, Gender, Religion and Work: A Case of Christian Female Sweepers in Lahore
Abolishing Archaic Processes: Rape Investigations in Pakistan
The Economic Role of Women in Pakistan: Vulnerabilities and Hurdles
Intersection of Caste, Gender, Religion and Work: A Case of Christian Female Sweepers in Lahore
Indian Sex Life - Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought
Writing & its Discontent: Sabyn Javeri on Hijabistan
Women in Public Service in Pakistan
Gendered Design of Technologies
Mobilising Women Voters: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan
Anatomy of a Rumour
Pakistani Women in Medicine: Myths and Realities
Engendering Piety and the Making of an Islamic Home in an Islamic Revival Movement in Pakistan
Feminist Journeys in Academia: Theorising State Power, Development and Social Justice in Pakistan's Northern Frontier
Events
Abolishing Archaic Processes: Rape Investigations in Pakistan
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Intersection of Caste, Gender, Religion and Work: A Case of Christian Female Sweepers…
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Research
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Research opportunities 2018
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Research opportunities 2019
Publications
Saida Waheed Gender Initiative
Address
Saida Waheed Gender Initiative
LUMS DHA, Lahore Cantt. 54792,
Lahore, Pakistan
Tel: +92 42 3560 8000 Ext. 2234
Contact Information
gender@lums.edu.pk
Tel: +92 42 3560 8000 Ext. 2234
