Who gets to have a child in grad school? Financial Precarity of the Migrant Single Mother

Shilpa Reddy (PhD) is a feminist sociologist with research and teaching interests in the areas of gender, feminism, women’s empowerment, domestic violence, marriage and family, international development, migration, postcolonial sociology, and postcolonial feminism. Her doctoral dissertation is a feminist study of the new and rapidly growing practice of platonic co-parenting in the Global North. Prior to entering academia, she was a journalist in India, and reported extensively on health, education, female foeticide, and caste-based discrimination. She has taught journalism at Manipal University (India), and Gender Studies at the Asian University for Women (Bangladesh). She has also worked as a communications consultant for Bangalore-based NGOs that provide protection and legal help for victims of domestic violence and dowry harassment. She holds a master’s degree in Gender, Development and Globalization from the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK, and a master’s and PhD in Sociology from the University of Maryland, College Park, USA.