Female students in India are 20% less likely to choose science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM) or commerce education compared to their male counterparts. With the fourth industrial revolution driving the demand for STEM skills and the creation of 60-65 million jobs in India’s digital core sector, addressing this gender
The labour market statistics that measure women’s labour are a critical foundation for effective policy design and ecosystem interventions to advance women’s economic empowerment. As per current measurements, India’s female labour force participation rate stands at approximately 30%. However, the methodologies that lead to this figure are underpinned by a
Quality in maternal healthcare is defined as the degree to which the maternal and newborn health services can be considered to be safe, effective, timely, efficient, equitable and people-centred. Integration of quality of care across the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal period is essential to improve healthcare outcomes of mothers and
The third session in the SKI Touchpoint series was conducted by the Health Practice Area, on the theme of ‘Integrating Perinatal Mental Health into Health Systems today’. The session was facilitated and moderated by Sattva Knowledge Institute’s Lakshmi Sethuraman, Principal and Lead, Health Practice Area and Dr Hema Divakar, CEO
In recent years, India has made considerable progress in its maternal and child health indicators and reduced IMR and MMR by a considerable fraction. Frontline workers like ASHA and ANM have played a central role by improving accessibility, generating awareness and enhancing utilisation of ANC and PNC services.However, there exist
In 2022, a leading foundation commissioned Sattva to explore the sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice (SRHRJ) landscape across five countries in south Asia — Nepal, Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh and Indonesia. This would help guide their Reproductive Health Programme strategy in the region, as well as support them
Development is top of mind for the government. We think that there are several aspects of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s February 1st Budget 2023 speech that are encouraging for the development sector. Three of the four areas that the government is focused on for the next 25 years as India
Decoding what causes diseases requires a deeper understanding of the underlying factors or determinants which affect health. These determinants do not operate in silos and interact with other factors, cumulatively driving health outcomes. Mental health is a complex issue and, much like health, is caused by a complex interplay of
According to PLFS 2021, a staggering 80% of women attribute their absence from the labour force to being engaged in domestic duties, making the unpaid labour economy a central theme for the discourse on women’s economic participation in India. In this podcast episode, we try to understand the
In this episode, we discuss gaps in gender-disaggregated data at the national level, and their impact on solution design to improve female labour force participation, with economist Mitali Nikore.
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