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As Women's History Month comes to an end, @shreyas_nl & I write in @scroll_in on the contributions of some brilliant female economists that have broken barriers and played a role in shaping India’s economic policy. 🧵 1/n scroll.in/article/102065…
Who are the women? In the 80s, Dharma Kumar, Padma Desai, Isher Judge Ahluwalia, Utsa Patnaik, Rohini Nayyar, Parveen Talha, Devaki Jain, Krishna Bharadwaj, Kanta Ranadive & Sudha Shenoy forged their legacies via wide-ranging & path-breaking work in academia & public policy. 2/n 
In the early 2000s, in Mumbai, the RBI saw several women rise to Deputy Governor: KJ Udeshi, Usha Thorat & Shyamala Gopinath. In Delhi too, things underwent a churn. The Planning Commission set up the first and only Feminist Economists Group chaired by @syedaIndia. 3/n
