I am a Cognitive Anthropologist at the Network Inequality and Fairness Group, working under the ERC Consolidator Grant, Algorithmic Fairness. My PhD research was in the Psychology of Inequality, understanding why disadvantaged individuals often become allies of unequal systems, which can lead to perceptions of fairness in systems of inequalities. Currently, I am extending my research to study how individuals’ social roles and positionality in social networks might lead to justification of inequalities by reducing bargaining power. I have applied my work to understand dynamics of gendered division of household labour, with a goal to figure out how we can give power and autonomy to women in their households. I currently work with experimental, ethnographic, economic and statistical modeling methods to study the above phenomena, and am integrating social network analysis into my program. I have also taken a cross-cultural approach, studying gender dynamics in nomadic hunter-gatherers, agricultural societies, industrialized societies, and different socioeconomic groups in India.
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