Her research and teaching interests include gender and development, women and work, globalization, environment and media. She started her research work by studying challenges faced by women home-based workers in Karachi city for her Master’s Thesis in 2001. The research findings were later compiled to publish a book Home-Based Workers: A Silent Workforce by the Centre of Excellence for Women’s Studies with the financial assistance of the International Labour Organization (ILO). Her doctoral research, “Impact of Globalization on Women Workers in Urban Industrial Sector of Karachi” analyzed how globalization is one of the major factors that has transformed women's roles in contemporary Pakistani society. She has presented her work at several conferences in Pakistan.