Unlocking young women’s economic potential through digital mentoring in India
Policy brief that demonstrates how a digital mentoring policy and practice ecosystem can attract a range of stakeholders to support the transition of young Indian women from tertiary education into the labour force.
Based on a case study of the Mentor To Go program implemented with 1,000 young people between March 2020 to April 2021, this policy brief demonstrates how digital mentoring reached marginalised girls across India and helped them acquire work readiness skills, connect with a diverse mentor network, and experience more egalitarian gender norms, thus showing promise to tackle the three key challenges faced by young women in India: skills deficit, network gap, and restrictive gender norms that limit women’s work readiness and career aspirations. Building from the findings, recommendations are specified for policies and practices to improve the ecosystem of stakeholders and stakeholder-driven support to promote female labour force participation.
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- CountryIndia
- LanguageEnglish
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