IIT Bombay vs. IIT Madras: Which institute is home to higher number of female students?

For decades, India’s premier engineering institutions have grappled with a stubborn reality: the number of women pursuing engineering remains markedly low. The imbalance has been so chronic that the Indian Institutes of Technology were compelled to introduce supernumerary seats, additional, women-exclusive seats, from 2018 onward. The idea was simple but urgent: reverse the declining presence of women in an ecosystem long defined by male dominance. The Joint Admission Board (JAB), alarmed by the dip from 9 percent women in 2015 to 8 percent in 2016, (TNN report), mandated a phased policy to push female representation to 20 percent by 2026. The move was not merely corrective but existential; without intervention, the IITs risked perpetuating a talent pool that looked increasingly homogen