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• Medha Uniyal at Stanford Social Innovation Review writes on how to increase women's gender equity in India through having more access to online resources and the internet.
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In the past decade in India, more women have enrolled in higher education, but they made up only 24 percent of the country's workforce from 2015 to 2016, down from 36 percent from 2005 to 2006.
Several factors have contributed to the decline, but restrictive social norms have played the most prominent role. Indian women have traditionally been physically and economically isolated, with roughly 80 percent of them being disallowed from visiting even a local health center without permission from their husbands or other family members. These obstacles make it harder for women to discover and take new jobs. And even if they do obtain employment, they faced continued pressure from their families to abandon their jobs, get married if they are single, and stay at home.
For the many Indian women who find themselves in these isolating circumstances, internet-enabled technologies can offer a way out by connecting them to the information and social networks they need to start and excel in their careers.
Read the full article about gender equity in India by Medha Uniyal at Stanford Social Innovation Review.