Swasti Mitter

Her main area of research involved exploring the ways Information Technologies have influenced employment patterns for women in less developed countries.

Her father, Sasankasekhar Sanyal was a politician and her mother Usha Rani.

[3] They moved to the United Kingdom, where she studied at the London School of Economics and the University of Cambridge.

[1] Whilst at Brighton, she published two books, Common Fate: Common Bond in 1986, about the poor working conditions of women in export processing zones, and Computer-aided Manufacturing and Women's Employment in 1992.

[1] On 1 May 2016, Mitter died at Churchill Hospital, Oxford due to cancer and pneumonia.