Using Sociology to Address Violence Against Women An Interview with Shruti Majumdar
Shruti Majumdar is currently the acting Programme Manager for the Ending Violence against Women portfolio in UN Women’s Afghanistan office. She has over a decade of field experience at the World Bank and the United Nations at the intersection of programming and research on women’s empowerment programmes in multiple countries such as India, Bangladesh, Serbia, Jordan and Uzbekistan. Shruti has an MA and PhD in Sociology from Brown University, and a BA in Sociology from Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University. Here she is interviewed by Sebastián Galleguillos, a doctoral student at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY), where he also completed an MA in International Crime & Justice. He is a Youth Representative for the International Sociological Association (ISA) to the United Nations and Research Associate at the Centro de Estudios de Derecho Penal, Universidad de Talca, Chile. His research interests include comparative criminology, social media and crime, and alternatives to incarceration. SG: Can you tell me about your current position at the United Nations? How long have you held that position and what are your principal duties? SM: Since 2018, I have been working at the United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence against Women at UN Women. We support and invest in civil society organizations...