Value chains as a starting point to build for her
Abstract
The gender gap in women’s access to financial inclusion persists at reprehensible levels.
The world is designed for men, Caroline Criado Perez will tell you. More specifically, she’ll say “the design of our world is based on the assumption that men are the standard, and women are the exception”- the anomaly who must morph and twist and stretch herself to “fit”. In 1929, Virginia Woolf wrote, a woman must have money… and a room of her own!
But how does a woman go about building a room of her own when pathways to economic empowerment are rarely built on the foundation of women-centric experiences?
(Originally published as a blog in the Times of India on March 22, 2023)
