Swati Sharma

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Swati Sharma

Swati Sharma is a Quantitative Economist at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, working on an inter-disciplinary project that aims to address gender gaps in STEM at the tertiary level. Prior to joining IIT Delhi, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi.

Her research domains include personnel economics, labour and development economics with a focus on gender, social networks and labour market outcomes.

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प्रौद्योगिकी में लड़कियाँ : आईआईटी की अतिरिक्त सीट योजना का मूल्यांकन

वर्ष 2018 में शुरू की गई अतिरिक्त सीट योजना (सुपरन्यूमरेरी सीट्स स्कीम) का उद्देश्य परंपरागत रूप से पुरुष-प्रधान रहे आईआईटी संस्थानों के स्नातक इंजीनियरिंग छात्रों में स्त्री-पुरुष अनुपात में सुधार लाना है। लेख बताता है कि यह पहल इन प्रतिष्ठित संस्थानों में अधिक लड़कियों की भर्ती में सफल रही है। इसके अलावा, यद्यपि लड़कियों की शुरूआत प्रवेश स्तर पर निचले रैंकों से होती है, वे औसतन कार्यक्रम अवधि में शैक्षणिक रूप से अपने पुरुष समकक्षों के बराबर आ जाती हैं।

08 July 2025
Social Identity
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Girls in tech: Evaluating IIT’s Supernumerary Seats Scheme

Introduced in 2018, the Supernumerary Seats Scheme seeks to improve gender ratios among undergraduate engineering students at IITs, which have historically been male dominated. This article shows that the initiative has been successful in getting more females into these elite institutions. Further, on average, although girls start off with lower entry ranks, they are able to match up with their male counterparts academically over the duration of the programme

21 May 2025
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Social Identity
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