Bhumi Purohit on Female Leaders and Bureaucratic Resistance

Published: Nov. 4, 2021, noon

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This episode is the fourth in a miniseries of weekly short episodes featuring young scholars entering the academic job market who discuss their latest research. In this episode, Shruti talks with Bhumi Purohit about female leaders\\u2019 access to networks, gender quotas, expanding women\\u2019s access to social and political capital, and much more. Purohit is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on comparative politics, political behavior and South Asia; in particular, she seeks to understand the behavioral and institutional barriers to women\\u2019s political representation. \\xa0

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