• STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) education in India and globally has a glaring gender gap, which is especially true for India's premier technology institutes - the IITs

• Even if women access STEM education, it does not necessarily translate into STEM careers for them

• There is a lack of comprehensive studies on the factors leading to the inequitable representation of women in STEM

A multidisciplinary team of researchers using a range of qualitative, quantitative, spatial, and digital methods to study women's life cycle in STEM - focusing on entry, experience, retention, and leadership at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (as our “field”)

• A research-backed framework to strengthen the academic and research pipeline for entry, retention, professional growth and women's leadership in STEM

• Make the gender inequality problem in STEM more visible and harder to ignore through our academic and action research

• Our work is funded by Co-Impact's Gender Fund which emphasizes the need to elevate women's agency and leadership at all levels

Over a five-year period from 2022 to 2027, we are engaged in the following activities to achieve our goals:

• Landscaping and learning from existing initiatives

• Bridging the knowledge gap on women’s mobility in the STEM career pipeline

• Developing a digital presence to create and circulate public facing content

• Designing and implementing a gender-inclusion framework for IIT Delhi