“Women are capable economic agents who need effective rule of law to function to their full capacity”

In her talk on Women’s Legal Rights and Inequality in Economic Resources: A Global Perspective, Dr. Hema Swaminathan, from the Centre of Public Policy at IIMB, focuses on inequality in the economic sphere with respect to employment and asset ownership, explaining that economic freedom and empowerment is foundational to empowerment in other spheres

Gender inequality continues to be pervasive in nearly all walks of life – economic, political, social, cultural – an issue that cuts across borders. This remains true even as women are making tremendous progress and shattering glass ceilings in many ways. “Successful examples are inspiring and push boundaries, but they do not change the lived realities of most of the world’s women to whom equality is still not within reach,” pointed out Dr. Hema Swaminathan, from the Centre of Public Policy at IIM Bangalore.