A Gender Atlas of India is a seminal body of work which comprehensively maps and grades India's performance from 2001 to 2016 on issues of concern for women. Taking into account 8 overall indicators and 28 sub-indicators, it looks at how India is performing on various aspects, including sex ratio, women's education, employment, health, political participation and representation; and prevention of crimes against women. Unlike previous attempts, this book examines the change in India's performance over a 15-year period, compares the situation of women in India to that in its neighborhood and internationally, and rates each Indian state and union territory individually. The findings in this book are both provocative and incentivizing for policymakers--they show that where the central and state governments share concerns India's performance on gender has improved, but where they diverge women's condition has deteriorated even further.
With data from a range of government and independent institutions, the Census of India, Family Health Surveys, UN Statistics, World Bank data, and NGO and industry surveys, this book is an essential reference for policymakers, government departments, libraries, and individuals.
Korff, Marcel: - Marcel Korff is presently with Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency. After completing his MSc in Political Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), he worked as a Research Associate with the Delhi Policy Group, with a close focus on gender equality and India- European Union political cooperation. Marcel has written on issues of distributive justice and multinational defense strategy harmonization.
Kumar, Radha: -
Radha Kumar is a specialist on gender, conflict, and public policy. A former Director General of the Delhi Policy Group, she was part of the Government's Group of Interlocutors for Jammu and Kashmir in 2010-11, headed the Mandela Center for Peace at Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi, and was Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. Her books include Peacemaking in Deeply Divided Societies (SAGE, 2009), Making Peace with Partition (2006), Bosnia in the Annals of Partition (1997), and A History of Doing: Women's Movements in India (1993). She has also co-authored, with Amitabh Kundu and Tanweer Fazal, Rurbanization in India: A Study of Kerala and Madhya Pradesh (2016). She is currently on the boards of the United Nations University in Tokyo and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
Sudhir, Karthika: - Karthika Sudhir is an LLB (Hons) and a Master in International Relations graduate. Following a six-month internship with the United Nations Institute for Training and Research in the International Law Program, Karthika joined the Delhi Policy Group as a Research Associate with a focus on governance, gender, and minorities. Here, she worked closely on the Gender Atlas and assisted in fieldwork for a United Nations Development Program-funded project related to religious minorities and rural development. Karthika is currently working on regulatory compliance and anti-money laundering for an electronic money institution based in the UK and the European Union.
