India’s gender gap is a disgrace and it’s time we paid attention to women | The Indian Express

India’s gender gap is a disgrace and it’s time we paid attention to women | The Indian Express

Written by Bhaskar Chakravorti |Updated: May 7, 2019 11:24:58 am

The writer is Dean of Global Business at The Fletcher School at Tufts University, founding executive director of Fletcher’s Institute for Business in the Global Context. He is author of The Slow Pace of Fast Change

India’s gender gap is a disgrace and it’s time we paid attention to women

Can you hear women at polling booths, and on the Internet? The silent revolution will get noisy soon. If the #MeToo campaign teaches us anything, it is to never underestimate the power of an angry woman with a mobile phone.

India boasts a top 20 ranking (19th out of 149 countries) in terms of political empowerment of women, according to the World Economic Forum. (Illustration: Pradeep Yadav)

As the largest exercise of democracy on earth readies for a denouement, three developments have converged and it is time we paid attention. All three have to do with the state of the Indian woman.