Namita Bhandare is a journalist with close to 30 years of reporting and editing experience for various publications including Sunday magazine, India Today magazine, and the daily, The Hindustan Times. She was appointed India’s first gender editor for the newspaper, Mint and, as an independent journalist, writes long-form analytical pieces for IndiaSpend, including a 12-part series on women and work that looked at India’s declining female labour force participation. While she continues to write occasional pieces for Mint and Foreign Policy, she has a fortnightly column on gender for The Hindustan Times.
