The Gender Lab Fellowship [Women] 2021-22, Mumbai [10 Months]: Apply by Mar 31

The Gender Lab Fellowship

The Gender Lab is BRM’s (Blue Ribbon Movement’s) vertical that focuses on addressing gender issues through innovative interventions.

It is evolving with time and currently has the following initiatives within:

1) Avanti Young Women Leadership Program

2) The Gender Lab Fellowship

3) The Gender Lab Boys Program

The Gender Lab Fellowship is a space for building women’s leadership skills, self-awareness, and sisterhood through a multi-layered ‘service learning’ model.

In a 10 month journey, TGL fellows work with 13-14-year-old school-going girls across schools in Mumbai on the prevailing social issues in their communities. Through this journey, they enable their girls to be more confident, socially aware, better communicators, and foster sisterhood.

Together they question the gender narratives around them, push boundaries, and emerge as powerful change-makers.

About the Fellowship

Objectives of The Gender Lab Fellowship:

Take young women through a practical learning experience that will build their confidence and empathy along with making them socially aware and responsible
Equip women with the required leadership and entrepreneurial skills that will help them in their career
Empower young women by exploring the impact of gender bias and therefore breaking their own stereotypes.
Enable young women to develop a vision for themselves and work towards taking their own decisions and becoming independent

This fellowship will include:

A learning track for fellows to build their personal skills, professional skills and domain-knowledge.
Each fellow training 250-300 school girls for a 6 month community service based leadership program.
A deep dive into their own gender stereotypes and blocks to their self-empowerment.

Who can be a fellow?

Women:

Anyone identifying as a woman across social identities
Between the age of 20 and 25 years.
Fluent in Hindi(required) and any one of English/ Marathi/ Gujarati *Comfortable with extensive field work and local travel within Mumbai

Passion: Passionate about understanding and working on gender issues and women’s empowerment
Commitment: