MPhil Grad wins Papiya Ghosh Prize for Best Thesis

Carolina's thesis was a qualitative study of part-time women domestic workers’ experience of work in Mumbai, India. The thesis adopted domestic work as the prism to assess working women’s lives more broadly. In other words, it explored how the experience of domestic work affects the lives of women in their multiple identities and, conversely, how the latter influence their decision to work, as well as the modalities they adopt to conduct such activities.

Overall, the thesis argued that an emphasis on individual choice and action tends to obscure how relationality fundamentally characterizes all aspects of women domestic workers’ lives, including their work trajectories, experiences, and meanings.

Looking ahead, Carolina intends to further explore the nexus between informal work, gender and poverty.