A Black Feminist’s Dilemma

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  • Kalwinder Sandhu
  • Kalwinder Sandhu

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https://doi.org/10.31273/fd.n1.2016.18

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  • Kalwinder Sandhu

    Kalwinder Sandhu started her professional life as a software engineer working for Marconi. She subsequently worked for the NHS and Department for Education setting up and implementing national programmes. She undertook an interim executive role at a Black and Minority Ethnic domestic violence refuge and recently published Layers of Inequality; A Human Rights and Equality Impact Assessment of the Spending Cuts on Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic women in Coventry. She is currently setting up a social enterprise for BME women in Coventry to access the labour market.

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Published

2016-07-21

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No. 1 (2016): Inaugural Issue

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