Odile Mackett is a Senior Lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand’s School of Governance. She has a PhD and a MCom in Applied Development Economics from the University of the Witwatersrand in addition to a BA International Studies (majoring Politics & Economics) and a BCom (Hons) in International Trade and Finance from the University of Johannesburg. She is a labour and feminist economist and her research interests are related to the division, quality, and definition of both paid and unpaid work, how households and families are structured and formed around these types of work, and how the state interacts with households and the market to reinforce the gendered and racial division of work. She has broadly written on social security, poverty, and inequality specifically as these factors relate to gender inequalities in society.
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