Ruth Pearson

Ruth Pearson
University of Leeds
Leeds, United Kingdom

Ruth Pearson is Director of the Centre for Development Studies School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds.  She has conducted fieldwork-based research on women's employment in the UK, Mexico, Cuba and Thailand, and also researched corporate social responsibility, reproductive rights, micro-credit, women and development and the social economy.  She has supervised numerous Masters and Doctoral theses on women and is the author/editor of 4 books and some 60 other publications. Ruth was a member of the  Board of AWID (the Association of Women's Rights in Development) and is a Trustee of two UK based NGOs B Home Workers WorldWide  and the Women's Employment, Enterprise and Training Unit, both of which support low income women in understanding their rights and  organizing to improve their livelihoods. She has two current research projects - one on migrant Burmese factory workers in Thailand's  border industries, and one on the representation of Asian women industrial militants in the UK. Her recent publications include three co-edited collections arising out of collective projects: with Shahra Razavi and Caroline Danby, Globalization, Export-Oriented Employment  and Social Policy, 2004; with  R. Jenkins and G. Seyfang, Corporate Responsibility and Labour Rights: Codes of Conduct in the Global  Economy, 2002; and with  Beverly Lemire,  Women and Credit: Researching the Past and Prefiguring the Future, 2002;  among her other recent publications are "The Rise and Rise of Gender and Developmen" in (eds) C. Kirkpatrick, R. and R. Clark, Handbook on Development Policy and Management,2002; and "Men, women and reproductive work in the global economy" European Journal of Development Research Vol 12 No 2  2000. She is committed to supporting the international outreach of IAFFE, in particular the recruitment of more members in Asia and Latin America. 

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