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Accelerating gender equality in India post-COVID

Past Event 5 Mar 2021 at 00:00 COVID-19

Farzana Afridi

Professor, Indian Statistical Institute (Delhi)

Diva Dhar

Deputy Director, Women’s Economic Empowerment, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Naila Kabeer

Professor of Gender and Development at the Gender Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

To mark International Women’s Day 2021, we explore how India can adopt more gender inclusive policy planning and implementation to manage the impact of COVID-19.

This event is part of the LSE Festival: Shaping the Post-COVID World running from Monday 1 to Saturday 6 March 2021, with a series of events exploring the direction the world could and should be taking after the crisis.

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