Daily Editorial analysis:-

GS3: Inclusive growth

GS2: Social justice

India’s steps towards gender equity and inclusion

1. Forging global alliance:
2. The New Delhi Declaration of G20 summit, 2023: it emphasized the need to advocate the growth agenda driven by women led development.
3. Alliance for Global good: Gender equity and equality- Alliance forged at the sidelines of recently held WEF summit.
   1. Alliance include global think tanks, NGOs, experts, industry, country leadership that will augment women led development.
   1. Alliance aims to device scalable and practical solutions for advancing women led development in agrotech, women enterprise, skilling, health.
   1. India can take responsibility of global leadership because of India’s success story in uplifting women.
4. Glimpses of women led development in India
5. Political representation of women: Women reservation bill reserving a 3rd of parliamentary seats are passed.
6. Budgetary allocation: $27billion is allocated under gender budgeting.
7. Employment: According to PLFS, women labor force participation ratio has increased from 23.3% in 2017-18 to 37% in 2022-23.
8. Female enrollment in higher education increased by 28% in 10 years.
9. STEM cources enrollment: Women has 43% share.  Highest in the world.
10. Rural women: Over nine crore women participated in 83 lakh SHGs, led to socioeconomic development of women.

Way forward

• Industries across the world should come forward and share best practises to include women in the workspace.
• Inclusion of women issues in all global issues and relate summits. Eg: Climate change, biodiversity, UNCCD.

India’s measure to create global alliance is in line with vasudaiva kutimbakam, finding a global stakeholder based solution for gender related issues.