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# Feminism — Syllabus

## Books

1. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman — Mary Wollstonecraft
2. Concerning Women (1926) — Suzanne La Follette

## Academic Papers

1. [Free Market Feminism](https://deirdremccloskey.org/docs/pdf/Article_233.pdf) (1999) — Deirdre McCloskey
2. [How Markets Empower Women](https://www.cato.org/policy-analysis/how-markets-empower-women-innovation-market-participation-transform-womens-lives#introduction) — Chelsea Follett, Cato Institute, 2018
3. The Impact of Work-Family Policies on Women's Employment (2011) — Hegewisch and Gornick
4. Women's Economic Empowerment in the Developing Countries: Reengineering Patriarchy? (2018)
5. [Why is Female Labour Force Participation Declining in India?](https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---dgreports/---inst/documents/publication/wcms_250977.pdf) — ILO, 2014
6. Precarious Drop: Reassessing Female Labour Force Participation in India — World Bank, 2017
7. [Women Workers in India: Why So Few Among So Many?](https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2015/wp1555.pdf) — IMF, 2015
8. [Women and Work in India](https://ncaer.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/a3.pdf) — India Policy Forum, 2018
9. Women's Inheritance Rights and Intergenerational Transmission of Resources in India (2014)

## Reports, Data & Indices

1. [Women's Political Empowerment Index](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/women-political-empowerment-index), 2025 — Our World in Data
2. [Female Labour Force Participation in India](https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/india/brief/female-labor-force-participation-in-india) — World Bank, 2026
3. [Women, Business and the Law](https://wbl.worldbank.org/en/wbl) — World Bank, 2026
4. [Our World in Data: Maternal Mortality](https://ourworldindata.org/maternal-mortality)
5. [McKinsey Global Institute: The Power of Parity in India](https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/mckinsey/featured%20insights/employment%20and%20growth/the%20power%20of%20parity%20advancing%20womens%20equality%20in%20india/mgi%20india%20parity_full%20report_november%202015.pdf), 2015
6. State of Discrimination Report — Prosperiti/Trayas, 2022

## Articles & Blog Posts

1. [Too Safe to Work](https://prosperiti.substack.com/p/46-too-safe-to-work) — Prosperiti, 2025
2. [India's Labour Codes: What Changes for Women](https://prsindia.org/billtrack/the-code-on-wages-2019) — PRS Legislative Research, 2019
3. [Indian women's long journey towards equality in law and practice](https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/developmenttalk/indian-womens-long-journey-towards-equality-law-and-practice) — World Bank Blog, 2023