Martha Farrell Award: Excellence in Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equality (India)

The Award offers nominees and winners a platform to grow and network with like-minded professionals and institutions working in the space of gender empowerment and equality.

Award Categories

• Most Promising Individual
• Best Organisation for Gender Equality

Prize Information

• Winners also receive a prize money component of INR 1,50,000 each.

Eligibility Criteria

• Most Promising Individual
  • Professionals of any gender, between ages 25 and 40 years, working in government, business, industry, or civil society organisations in India.
  • The person has worked consistently for at least the past five years to promote women’s empowerment or gender equality within the workplace, at home, in communities, in educational institutions, in society, etc.
  • Innovative, practical,and comprehensive  approaches to social change promoting women’s empowerment or gender equality.
  • Personal examples and role models who practice values of feminism in everyday life.
• Best Organisation for Gender Equality
  • Any organisation or department/center/campaign under it, including government, business, industry, educational, health, media, unions, federations, or civil society, registered in India.
  • The organisation has been actively implementing systems/practices/strategies to mainstream gender both externally and internally – not just limited to program implementation but also working towards creating a gender-sensitive and gender-equal environment within their own workplace. Such efforts have been consistent for at least five years.
  • Innovative, practical, and comprehensive approaches to cultural and political change within the organisation toward women’s empowerment or gender equality.

For more information, visit Martha Farrell Foundation.