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Ramya Vijaya
Ramya Vijaya is a professor of Economics and Global Studies at Stockton University, New Jersey. Her work is grounded in feminist and stratification economics and addresses issues of structural inequalities, globalisation, and labour markets
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Inching towards college: Exploring gender and mobility in India
In the sixth post of I4I’s month-long campaign to mark International Women’s Day 2023, Vijaya at al. investigate mobility constraints among college-going students in Jalandhar. They find that while a greater proportion of boys are allowed to travel on their own earlier in life, this gender gap reduces by the time they reach college, and that more girls gain the freedom to travel in households where adult women already travel alone. They also investigate how gender, caste and class-based differences intersect to affect access to mobility: impacting time and distances travelled.
