Widespread gender bias in India ensures fewer women make it to top management compared to their male counterparts with similar skills
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Widespread gender bias in India ensures fewer women make it to top management compared to their male counterparts with similar skills
Although the world has recognised and acknowledged the talent of women, gender discrimination still prevails in our country.
The finding of a recent survey reveals that women in India hold only 10 per cent of the senior management posts.
Naveen Agarwal, CFO of Edelman, said, "There may be companies that think men are more committed to their work than women workers.
Whereas Sudha Natarajan, president of Lintas, lamented, "It's unfair to judge the capability of an individual solely on the basis of his/her gender.
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Men are always considered to be the bread winners of the family, while a woman's contribution towards the family income is always undermined."
However, it's not the case in other nations. Women employees make up 22 per cent of the IT workforce on a global scale. Thus, there's a still a ray of hope.
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According to Tracy Ann Curtis, the chief inclusion and diversity officer of Cisco, who was in the city yesterday, "It was only six-years-ago that women employees of Cisco in India, with immense fortitude, succeeded in bringing their parents and in-laws onto the companies health care schemes."
Whereas, Jignasha Patel, head of human resource, Cisco, said, "There are a lot of women in the corporate world these days.
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Thus, if they come together, they can climb greater heights by exploiting the immense talent that they possess."
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The percentage of women employees that hold senior management posts in India
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