Theme: Women's Financial Inclusion

While phone access and ownership has been rising rapidly in India in recent years, women lag behind on access, usage and ownership of mobile phones across the world but especially in South Asia, including India.

This paper provides an analytical review of extant literature on how low-income women in India and in other countries in the Global South access and use mobile phones

This post provides a brief overview of the gender gap in technology in India.

The post gives an overview of the gender gap in access and usage of financial services in India and the landscape of digital financial services.

To mark the occasion we share below a few publications/reports that throw light on the gender-finance equation. If you have a favourite paper or publication that needs to be on this list, please do share in the comments section below.

For the first time, the majority of Indian women have been financially included. Fresh data show that the proportion of Indian women with individual accounts in formal financial institutions (primarily banks) reached 61% in 2015, a sharp increase from 48% in 2014, lagging men by only eight percentage points.

For the first time, the majority of Indian women have been financially included. Fresh data show that the proportion of Indian women with individual accounts in formal financial institutions (primarily banks) reached 61% in 2015, a sharp increase from 48% in 2014, lagging men by only eight percentage points.

Finance Matters column in The Hindu Business Line – Farzana Najeeb of Advocacy writes the fifth article in the series.