10 Facts About Mina Swaminathan

Mina Swaminathan was an Indian educationist in the field of pre-school education.

Mina Swaminathan's mother was a novelist and playwright who wrote in Tamil and English under the penname Krithika, while her father was an Indian civil servant and economist.

Mina Swaminathan was the chairman of the committee that studied development of the pre-school child that was set up by the Indian Central Advisory Board of Education in 1970.

Mina Swaminathan was Secretary and later President of the Indian Association for Pre-school Education, as well as Editor of its journal, and a Member of the Central Advisory Board of Education.

Mina Swaminathan focused her efforts on studying gender equality as an activist and as a founding member of the Centre for Women's Development Studies, a woman and gender development organization, in 1980.

Mina Swaminathan served as the center's vice-chairperson from 1987 through 1993.

Mina Swaminathan's research focus included gender equality, women farmers' rights, rural poverty and its impact on women in rural communities, in addition to early childhood growth and education.

Mina Swaminathan's publications included manuals for teachers and day care workers on care and education of children below six, a study of day care for poor working women in India.

Mina Swaminathan was a recipient of the Homi Bhabha fellowship in 1973.

Mina Swaminathan was studying economics at Newnham College while he was pursuing his PhD at the school of agriculture in the same university.