A majority in the margins: Women in India’s informal manufacturing sector

India’s manufacturing strategy must look beyond women’s numerical presence, as the 58.4% ownership figure says little about where women participate, what they own, whether their enterprises can scale or which industries remain inaccessible to them, write Dr Kanika Mahajan and Sneha Mariam Thomas, Associate Professor, and Senior Research Analyst, respectively, at Ashoka University, Delhi-NCR.