Women in STEM – Challenges and Opportunities in India
An attempt to understand and explore structural barriers within STEM education and employment for women in India.
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Gender
Why Are Women Missing in STEM Spaces?
While increasing women’s participation in STEM is challenging, the state can activate private sector participation to enable entry and re-entry of women and girls in STEM education and occupations.
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Efficient State Intervention Can Help Prevent Gender Based Violence in India
India correctly identified women-led development as a priority during its G20 presidency. However, preventing GBV and acting against it is an absolute prerequisite for women to realise their full potential.
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Making Apprenticeship Schemes Women Friendly
The engagement of women remains disproportionately low in India’s apprenticeship programs. There is an urgent need to reform these programs to make them women-friendly by creating appropriate infrastructure, providing access to mentorship, incentivising participation in male-dominated vocations, and encouraging a role-model approach towards skilling and apprenticeship.
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Designing Gender Responsive Apprenticeship Programs
A marked gender imbalance persists in government apprenticeship initiatives. This study explores ways to make India’s apprenticeship programs gender-inclusive to fostering inclusive economic growth and bring more prosperity to women.
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Data Reveals Regional Disparities in Menstrual Hygiene Management in India
Addressing menstrual hygiene requires a multi-faceted and holistic approach, as it is both caused by and affects a range of other indicators, including gender equality, health, education, and economic empowerment.
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A Data Story on Female Child Marriage in India
An attempt at drawing attention to regions in India with high levels of female child marriage, as well as discussing potential solutions to address the problem.
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The Budget Missed an Opportunity to Boost ‘Nari Shakti’
To realize our ambition of a $10 trillion economy powered by ‘women-led development’, we need gender intentionality built into overall government spending.
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Build and Redesign Flexible Work Ecosystem to Boost Women’s Employment
‘Work-near-home’ centres being developed by the government must at the very least address infrastructure related challenges.
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Root Out the Prejudices in the Hindu Succession Act
We owe it to India’s daughters and their parents the same right to care for each other and be cared for by each other as we have for sons in our society, in life or in death.
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