A former member of the PM’s Economic Advisory Council speaks about her journey as a woman economist, and the challenges that she has faced during her career in a male dominated industry.
Every International Women’s Day there is a renewed call to increase women’s participation in policy making. Yet, when it comes to balancing gender equality, economics and policy making has not kept its pace unlike many other fields such as marketing, law and medicine.
Our guest on this Women’s Day special episode of Macro Minutes podcast is Dr, Shamika Ravi, a noted economist, senior fellow at Brookings Institution and a former member of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council. She speaks to Shreeja Singh about her journey as a woman economist, and the challenges that she has faced during her career in a male dominated industry, among other things.
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