Her work focuses on women, employment and the informal economy in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), as well as gender segregation in Islam, and microeconomics.
In post-revolution Iran, Bahramitash was working on improving peasant women's literacy and access to economic development resources.
Bahramitash is the winner of the Aileen D. Ross award (2003–04) for her focus on women and poverty in the Middle East.
Her recent books are entitled Veiled Employment: Islamism and the Political Economy of Women's Employment in Iran by Syracuse University Press (co-edited with Hadi S. Esfahani) 2011,[9] and Gender in Contemporary Iran: Pushing the Boundaries by Routledge and which was co-edited with Eric Hooglund, 2011.
[10] She most recently served as a Director of Research at the University of Montreal[11] This is a list of select publications by Bahramitash.