She is Professor and Jay Newman Chair in the Philosophy of Culture at Brooklyn College, City University of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center.
Khader's view is that it is possible to oppose gender oppression across the world without taking Western culture to be the model.
[4][5] She argues that relational conceptions of autonomy reinforce oppression by subjecting women to unjustified paternalism.
She applies these arguments to cases where women in the global South are thought to have "adaptive preferences."
She argues that what seem to be cases of women internalizing their oppression are in fact self-interested adaptations to unjust conditions, and explains why women who have internalized their oppression should still be consulted in interventions to change their lives and communities.