From Precarity to Possibility: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Inclusive Employment Pathways in Women’s and Gender Studies Education

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10.2991/978-94-6239-618-0_13How to use a DOI?

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Women’s Studies; Gender Studies; Artificial Intelligence; Education 4.0; Employment Insecurity; Data Feminism; Academic Marginalization; Neoliberalism; Higher Education India

Abstract

This study examines how neoliberal reforms and information technology and knowledge power relations create institutional exclusion and employment insecurity for women’s studies and gender studies scholars in Indian universities. The study employs qualitative in-depth interviews of eight Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) and Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD) graduates to examine their coping mechanisms with academic and non-academic problems as a result of structural precarity and disciplinary stigma and professional uncertainty. The study promotes the development of a pedagogical framework that integrates feminist theory with inclusive models and knowledge at the local level to re-fashion gender studies and women’s studies courses in contemporary India to align with feminist epistemologies and transdisciplinary education scholarship. The book calls for feminist knowledge to be a central aspect of institutional frameworks that must find it intellectually rigorous and socially useful rather than derivative or selling copy. The current research further explores how Women Studies./Gender Studies (WS/GS) education in India evolved historically and demonstrates how New Education Policy (NEP) 2020 and University Grant Commission (UGC) reforms impacted its evolution and its shortcomings related to job readiness and education organization and institutionalization. The initiative fosters institutional advancements which reshape interdisciplinary collaboration and research infrastructure and mentorship arrangements to create lasting career tracks for WS/GS graduates. Rather than being recipients of neoliberal restructuring, this article envisions feminist scholars as change agents who work towards the generation of socially responsible, just, and inclusive futures for Indian higher education.

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AU  - Srishti Srivastava
AU  - Shravan Kumar
AU  - Sourabh Kumar
AU  - Harleen Kaur
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/03/16
TI  - From Precarity to Possibility: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Inclusive Employment Pathways in Women’s and Gender Studies Education
BT  - Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Library & Technology on “Artificial Intelligence and Humanities in Library and Education 4.0 (AIHLE 2025)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 175
EP  - 192
SN  - 1951-6851
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DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6239-618-0_13
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