Layana Aanand is an Assistant Professor and Head, Department of Women's Studies in University of Calicut. Her area of Specialization has been Gender and Education and Gender and Democratic Decentralisation. She has been teaching and researching since the past ten years; working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Women's Studies, University of Calicut since 8th June, 2012. Previously, she has worked as Lecturer in the Centre for Women's Studies, University of Calicut, under the "One Time Additional Central Assistance" as per the Flagship programme of the Government of Kerala with UGC scale of pay from 8th September 2009 to 25th July 2011. She has been associated with an Action Research Project on Gender Budgeting in selected panchayats of Kozhikode and Malappuram districts by associating with Kerala Institute of Local Administration (KILA), Thrissur. She has worked as Project Assistant in the Kerala Institute of Local Administration, Thrissur, in the project titled "Gender Analysis of KILA's Training Modules and Handbook" from January to March 2009. She has also worked as Project Assistant in the Kerala Institute of Local Administration, Thrissur in the project titled "Compilation of Women Status Study Reports Conducted by KILA" from June to August 2009.