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Sanchita Mitra completed her Chartered Accountancy from ICAI in the year 1990. She served in Business Advisory Services at PricewaterhouseCoopers from 1990-2001. Her journey with SEWA Bharat began in the year 2005 from Delhi where she took up the responsibility of strengthening the community led microfinance programme in the states of Delhi, Bihar, Uttarakhand, West Bengal, UP and Rajasthan.
She has led the Financial Inclusion programme in Uttarakhand, bringing 80,000 men and women in difficult mountainous terrain under a formal financial system. Sanchita Mitra is the National Coordinator at SEWA Bharat, a national level federation of Self-Employed Women’s Association based in New Delhi. She directly oversees the development of new and developing SEWA institutions in eight states to strengthen the national movement through the integration of the access to basic rights as workers and citizens, grassroot leadership, strengthening women micro entrepreneurs and women owned social enterprises locally.
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Though workspaces are moving towards equality, and there has been significant progress in the Women’s labor rights, are we truly approaching gender parity/equality in the workplace? And are these workplaces actually friendly to their female employees? And is this progress restricted only to the formal sector of the economy? Having this discussion and considering the real world factors involved in addressing these ideas is what makes ideas of Women and labor relevant to the current zeitgeist.
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https://open.spotify.com/episode/3Baos00Fc7otRPyMNzmrh2?si=c74d26e044b44674
https://youtu.be/9_79JCs1pIA?si=A1ZQ28YCSmykbQfW
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for everyone who is a part of the ‘books before movies’ club
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because we do not believe in gatekeeping ;)
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for all the cinephiles out there
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