The Women and Public Policy Program’s faculty, research fellows, and students are committed to advancing women and gender equity globally. Through rigorous research, we offer gender insights into work, politics, and conflict that have the potential to reduce or eliminate barriers so all people can fulfill their life aspirations unconstrained by gender bias.
Climate, Debt, and Reproductive Health in India’s Sugarcane Belt
HKS Professor Eliana La Ferrara and PhD student Aditi Bhowmick are researching the compounding harmful impacts of climate change, gender norms, and financial debt on the health of women who work cutting sugarcane in a drought-prone region of India. They discuss their research project, co-sponsored by WAPPP and the Mittal Institute, in this Q&A with the Mittal Institute.
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The Women and Public Policy Program and the Harvard Kennedy School are located on the ancestral, traditional, and contemporary unceded homeland of the Massachusett people, the surviving descendants of the first people of Massachusetts and of the Neponset band of the Massachusett. We honor this tradition and work toward a gender equity agenda that addresses the needs of all women, including Indigenous women and Indigenous communities. For more information, please visit our GAP Land Acknowledgement resource page.