"There will always be a gap between the goals set down and scheme of implementation. Womens groups by now have enough data to know where the policies have gone wrong. The whole question is gathering enough political clout to make a change."
Padmini Swaminathan is an Indian feminist economist. She is the current chairperson of the Centre for Livelihoods at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Hyderabad. She has also served as the director of the Madras Institute of Development Studies (MIDS) and held the chair for Regional Studies of the Reserve Bank of India at MIDS until her retirement in 2011. Swaminathan studies industria