In this episode, Shruti talks with Alice Evans about issues affecting women in India, including single-gender education, son preference, social media and many others. Evans is a lecturer at King’s College London and a faculty associate at the Center for International Development at Harvard’s Kennedy School. She has published on topics such as women’s labor force participation, urbanization and social change, pro-worker reforms, what drives support for gender equality and more. Her book “The Great Gender Divergence” is forthcoming from Princeton University Press.

Follow Shruti on Twitter: https://twitter.com/srajagopalan

Follow Alice on Twitter: https://twitter.com/_alice_evans

For a transcript of this conversation and helpful links, visit DiscourseMagazine.com.