The article emphasizes the need for financial empowerment among Indian women, addressing challenges like pay gaps and limited access to services. It advocates for financial literacy, expanded microloans, women-oriented venture capital, technology, and policy changes.
The initial report of the DBS Bank India-CRISIL survey, one of three releases, indicates that concerning investments, the majority of women in urban areas typically gravitate towards conservative choices such as fixed deposits and savings accounts.
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Through my growing up years, I had no exposure to feminist thought or literature. The closest that I came across ‘women issues’ was through magazines like Femina, Women’s Era and, in later years, Savvy, that my mother subscribed to from time to time. They fired up women’s aspirations alright, but in the realm of appearance, not imagination. Worse, they not only reinforced the concept of ‘male gaze’, they trained the women to look at themselves the way their men saw them. Safe to say, not much evolution of thought happened here.
Despite this absence of exposure, one idea became integral to my being the moment I stepped into adolescence financial independence. It was not that I was short of money in fact, my father gifted me a dependent’s credit card when I turned 13 but I was conscious of the burden of accountability that came with spending someone’s else money. In addition to accountability for one’s indulgences, there was also a need to win approval for