Health
At IWWAGE, we recognise that women’s health and economic empowerment are deeply interconnected. Access to quality, affordable healthcare is essential for women to enter, remain in, and progress in the workforce. Improved health outcomes strengthen women’s economic participation, while greater economic agency enables better health, creating a reinforcing cycle of empowerment.
IWWAGE’s work on women’s health focuses on:
Linking health and economic participation
Examining how health outcomes influence women’s ability to participate, retain, and advance in paid work across sectors and life stages.
Improving measurement and visibility of women’s work
Bringing attention to under-recognised areas such as menstrual and menopausal health, and their implications for productivity, dignity, and long-term labour market engagement.
Identifying systemic barriers and enablers
Analysing how health systems, workplace practices, and social norms shape women’s access to care and health-related decision-making.
Integrating health into economic and workplace policy
Advocating for the inclusion of women’s health needs within labour, social protection, and workplace policies to support sustained economic empowerment.
Through this work, IWWAGE positions women’s health as a strategic lever for inclusive growth, ensuring that women’s health needs are visible, valued, and embedded within broader economic and social policy agendas.
National Family Health Survey
- October , 2022
- Aparna G | Bidisha Mondal