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Hema Swaminathan
Hema Swaminathan is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Public Policy of the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. Her recent research focusses on inequality in income and wealth distributions between women and men, and female labour participation in India. She is currently working on survey methodology to collect improved data on several domains: individual-level data on asset ownership and wealth, decision-making by women, and women’s engagement with the labour market. She was Principal Investigator on the Gender Asset Gap project, a comparative study of Ecuador, Ghana, and India (Karnataka). The project demonstrated the feasibility of collecting individual-level data on assets and wealth, and has generated the first-ever estimates of gender asset and wealth gaps.
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Mahila Samakhya: Women’s education through empowerment
While girls are now at par with boys in school enrolment, they continue to lag behind in terms of the number of years spent in formal education. In this context, this article assesses the impact of the ‘Mahila Samakhya’ programme – which sought to empower women within local communities in rural India in order to challenge traditional gender roles that may be restricting girls’ education – on educational gains.
