Her Right to Equality

From Promise to Power

Author: Nisha Agrawal

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The text discusses the gender inequality in India despite constitutional promises, with women having limited control over resources and facing backlash for challenging norms. It questions the possibility of achieving gender equality by 2047, a century after Independence.

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The fifth volume in the Rethinking India series looks at the reality of gender equality in India against the promises made in the Constitution of India of a just and equal country. India remains a very unequal country and women control, at best, about 10-15 per cent of economic and political resources. In India, a highly patriarchal society, social norms give very little power to women and consequently, women have little control or influence over decisions taken within their households, in markets, or in political spaces. Challenging these norms can lead to a backlash, leading to high levels of violence against women. Is it possible to imagine a more equal country by 2047, a hundred years after Independence

About the Author

NISHA AGRAWAL is an economist who has worked on poverty, inequality and social development issues for more than thirty years. She was the first CEO of Oxfam India for ten years from 2008-18. Prior to that, she worked with the World Bank for almost twenty years. She has extensive experience working in countries in the East Asia Region (especially Cambodia, Vietnam and Indonesia) and in the East Africa Region (Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda). Prior to that, for four years, Nisha was a research associate at the Impact Research Centre at Melbourne University in Australia. She has a PhD in economics from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, and an MA in economics from the Delhi School of Economics. Nisha is an active member of civil society networks and organizations promoting social justice, with a special interest in promoting gender equality.