Ms. Srivastava is a Political Science Honours Graduate from Patna Women’s College. She was employed as Development Executive and Documentation officer with the Swiss Red Cross Programme Coaching Unit [SRC-PCU], Patna, India. She is an ex-Member of Steering Committee on Women & Child Development for Planning Commission of India (2007-2012). She has earlier worked as an Assistant Supervisor in the Access Services, Olin and Uris Library, Cornell University, an Ivy League University in United States of America.
She has over 10 publications in different leading newspapers and journals which include ‘Denial of existence’- a case study on the plight of ‘Musahar’ women in the most backward areas of Bihar. Her other works on ‘Indecent Portrayal of Women in Media’, ‘Life in hell’ – on the spot study on the plight of sex workers in Chaturbhujsthan – Bihar’s biggest red light area, ‘Witchunt’- based on witchcraft killings in Bihar and Jharkhand- published in leading British magazine Marie Claire and ‘The reel and the real woman- the role of law and media in projecting women’- published in THE HOOT a south Asian electronic journal. Her paper on ‘An ethnographic study on women in prostitution in Bihar’ was presented and published at Forum 9 (Bombay) Global Forum for Health Research. Her paper titled ‘The Bad Karma’ was presented at society for working life’s IVth International Congress Secretariat held at New Delhi. The ‘Missing Women’ among the ‘survivors’: Where are they? Was accepted for a poster presentation at the conference “Research on Workplace Health & Safety: From the Core to the Margins”, an international conference of Safety Net and the Canadian Association for Research on Work and Health at Memorial University in St. John’s, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada. She was invited to present a paper during the scientific meetings of Research Committee 32, Women in Society (WISISA), held for the XVI International Sociological Association World Congress in Durban South Africa on “Women in Panchayati Raj- Gandhi’s dream of Feminising Politics” She was also invited to present a paper on Women in the history of Eastern India at Indian Association for Women Studies Calcutta.