Rohini Pande quoted in The New York Times: "Women in India Face a Jobs Crisis. Are Factories the Solution?"
Rohini Pande describes her survey work in conjunction with Inclusion Economics network showing how a dearth of jobs has largely kept Indian women away from paid work, despite a high number of them interested in pursuing such opportunities.
The New York Times
July 3, 2024
...If jobs were available, more women would confront social strictures in pursuit of economic advancement, economists say. This is especially so as India has, in recent decades, significantly increased investments in education for girls.
“The supply of young women who want to work is very high,” said Rohini Pande, an Indian labor expert and the director of the Economic Growth Center at Yale University. “In all the surveys we see, women want to work but find it very difficult to migrate to where the jobs are, and the jobs aren’t coming to them.”
The consequences of this reality are stark: the perpetuation of poverty amid a lost opportunity for betterment.