Sadhna Arya is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, Satyawati College (E), University of Delhi. She was Senior Fellow with the Centre for Women’s Development Studies (CWDS) in 2004-05, and the Indian Council for Social Science Research (ICSSR) from 2013 to 2015. She is actively involved with women’s rights issues and has written extensively on the subject. She is the author of the monograph, Women, Gender Equality and the State and the Occasional Paper, The National Commission for Women—Assessing Performance, and has co-edited Narivadi Rajniti—Sangharsh Evam Mudde and Poverty, Gender and Migration.