Shmyla Khan
Shmyla Khan is a researcher and campaigner working on the intersection of feminism, technologies, law and human rights. She has previously worked extensively on digital rights as the Director of Research and Policy at the Digital Rights Foundation and taught at LUMS and BNU. She holds a masters in law from the University of Michigan through a Fulbright scholarship and has worked as a law clerk at the Supreme Court of Pakistan.
SATURDAY Saturday 2nd March
Navigating Economic Challenges
Location: Hall 1
Inflation is a debilitating economic condition that impacts women and marginalized groups first. While the research shows that women have less money to begin with, crises like shrinkflation and recession mean that they pay double the prices on items of daily use with an additional cost if those items are deemed a luxury. The last three years have seen a significant amount of women talking about the rising costs of fuel impacting their mobility to being forced to take very hard decisions for their children. In this panel we will examine the structural barriers that impede women's productivity and the intersecting effects of inflation on women's lived realities.
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