Ideas of India: The Great Gender Divergence

In this episode, Shruti talks with Alice Evans about issues affecting women in India, including single-gender education, son preference, social media and many others. Evans is a lecturer at King’s College London and a faculty associate at the Center for International Development at Harvard’s Kennedy School. She has published on topics such as women’s labor force participation, urbanization and social change, pro-worker reforms, what drives support for gender equality and more. Her book The Great Gender Divergence [1] is forthcoming from Princeton University Press. Read the transcript at Discourse [2]. 

People: 
Shruti Rajagopalan
Calendar Date: 
May 13, 2021
Remote Page: 
Discourse [2]
Podcast Series: 
Ideas of India [3]
Tags: 
India [4]
Ideas & Culture [5]
Podcast Types: 
Mercatus Original Podcast [6]
Publish to Announcements page?: 
Featured Tag: 
Ideas of India [7]
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Libsyn Podcast ID: 
19086077
Subtitle: 
Shruti Rajagopalan and Alice Evans discuss the status of women in India, the need for structural transformation and much more

Source URL: https://www.mercatus.org/podcasts/05132021/ideas-india-great-gender-divergence-0

Links
[1] http://press.princeton.edu/news/the-great-gender-divergence
[2] https://www.discoursemagazine.com/culture-and-society/2021/05/13/ideas-of-india-the-great-gender-divergence/
[3] https://www.mercatus.org/podcasts/series/ideas-india
[4] https://www.mercatus.org/tags/india
[5] https://www.mercatus.org/tags/ideas-culture
[6] https://www.mercatus.org/podcasts/types/mercatus-original-podcast
[7] https://www.mercatus.org/tags/ideas-india

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