Women Empowerment

Experts Chavi Vohra and Veeha Vohra outline why India needs gender parity as much as we need sustainable development.

Meet Mayura Davda Shah, who quit her job in the engineering industry to build MAYU, a sustainable fashion brand that makes eco-friendly leather handbags and other products from waste fish skin.

Sisters Sanjoli and Ananya Banerjee began engaging in activism and fighting female foeticide from a young age. Today, they champion many causes -- education, menstrual hygiene, mental health and more.

Taking inspiration from Maharshi Karve, Jameendar Babasaheb Keshav Narayanrao Deshmukh set up the Sanskriti Samvardhan Mandal (SSM), to start the first-ever residential school in Sagroli, Maharashtra committed to empowering girls through education

Whisper’s #KeepGirlsInSchool campaign aims to stop millions of girls from dropping out of school due to period taboos. Here’s how hundreds of girls in one school are thriving as a direct result.

Madhumita Shaw, the owner of handicrafts business Pipal Tree, talks about overcoming the struggles in her married life to find independence, and helping hundreds of Jharkhand tribal women find theirs

For the ladies living in Nizamuddin basti in Old Delhi, preparing 700-year-old recipes to cater to folks across the city under Zaika-e-Nizamuddin (ZeN) helped them find their identity and financial independence.

Runjun Begum from Assam was married at 16 and physically abused after giving birth to two daughters. But this didn’t deter her from starting her own business that empowers other women and makes her financially independent.

Anirban and Polumi Nandy run Live Life Happily NGO, which as helped thousands of women across Siliguri earn more with mushroom farming, encouraging them to be financially independent

In Dehradun, Kamalpreet Kaur’s ventre Ora Infini is helping thousands of rural and semi-urban women become financially independent by providing free training in making LED bulbs, a field that most view as a male-dominated industry.