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'''Gita Sen''' is an [[Feminism in India|Indian feminist scholar]]. She is a Distinguished Professor & Director at the Ramalingaswami Centre on Equity & Social Determinants of Health, at the Public Health Foundation of India.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://icpdtaskforce.org/member/gita-sen/|title=Gita Sen » High-Level Task Force for the International Conference on Population and Development (Secretariat)|website=icpdtaskforce.org|language=en|access-date=2018-10-24}}</ref> She is also an adjunct professor at [[Harvard University]], a professor emeritus at the [[Indian Institute of Management Bangalore]], and the General Coordinator of DAWN ([[Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era]]).<ref name=":0" />

== Education ==
Sen received her M.A. in Economics from [[Delhi School of Economics]] and her Ph.D. in Economics from [[Stanford University]].<ref name=":0" /> She holds honorary doctorates from the [[University of East Anglia]], the [[Karolinska Institute]], the [[Open University]], and the [[University of Sussex]].

== Career ==
Sen was the first chairperson of the [[World Bank]]'s External Gender Consultative Group and was a member on [[the Millennium Project]]'s Task-force on Gender Equality.<ref name=":0" />

Sen has worked with the [[United Nations]] in several capacities, including as the lead consultant for the [[United Nations Population Fund]]'s 2003–2007 India Population Assessment. She also serves on the Scientific and Technical Advisory group for the [[World Health Organization]]'s Department of Reproductive Health and Research.<ref name=":0" />

Currently, Sen is an adjunct professor of Global Health and Population at the [[Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/gita-sen/|title=Gita Sen|website=Gita Sen|language=en-us|access-date=2018-12-14|archive-date=15 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181215123535/https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/gita-sen/|url-status=dead}}</ref> and a professor emeritus at the [[Indian Institute of Management Bangalore]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mtholyoke.edu/global/global-scholars/gita-sen|title=Gita Sen|date=2015-08-17|website=Mount Holyoke College|language=en|access-date=2018-12-14}}</ref> In 2020 she was honored with the [[Dan David Prize]].<ref>[https://www.dandavidprize.org/laureates/2020 Dan David Prize 2020]</ref>

==Selected bibliography==
===Books===
* Gender Equity in Health: the Shifting Frontiers of Evidence and Action (Routledge, 2010).
* Women's Empowerment and Demographic Processes – Moving Beyond Cairo (Oxford University Press/IUSSP, 2000).
* Population Policies Reconsidered: Health, Empowerment and Rights (Harvard University Press, 1994).

===Journal articles===
* {{Cite journal | last1 = Sen | first1 = Gita | last2 = Benería | first2 = Lourdes |title = Class and Gender Inequalities and Women's Role in Economic Development: Theoretical and Practical Implications | journal = [[Feminist Studies (journal)|Feminist Studies]] | volume = 8 | issue = 1 | pages = 157–176 | publisher = [[Feminist Studies]] | doi = 10.2307/3177584 | date = Spring 1982 | jstor = 3177584 }}

==See also==
* [[Population study]]
* [[Peggy Antrobus]]
* [[Lourdes Benería]]
* [[Feminism in India]]

==Sources==
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[[Category:Multicultural feminism]]
[[Category:Postmodern feminists]]
[[Category:American women writers of Indian descent]]
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