The Gender Gap in Financial Well-being Measurement in India |
The current approaches to measuring financial well-being in India fail to capture women’s distinct financial realities. Existing measures overlook women’s lived realities shaped by caregiving, limited autonomy, and structural inequalities. Drawing on literature and qualitative insights from the field study conducted with Indian women, this article calls for a gender-sensitive, contextually grounded framework of FWB that enables more precise assessment and informs inclusive policy interventions.
The first author gratefully acknowledges the financial........