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Brief Biography (English)
Ameeta Jaga is an Associate Professor of Organisational Psychology at the School of Management Studies at the University of Cape Town in South Africa.
In the Spring of 2020, she was the Mandela Mellon Fellow at the Hutchins Centre for African and African American Research, Harvard University in the USA. Her Research focuses on the work-family interface relating to culture, race, class, and gender.
More recently Prof Jaga has been using the Southern Theory to prioritise context in work-family research while underlining global inequalities in knowledge production. Her current research projects deal with understanding how gender equality (via breastfeeding at work) is understood in 21st century South Africa.
