Genpact Centre for Women's Leadership

29/11/2018

The Breakthrough programme provides women the skills to effectively navigate these interdependent demographic, cultural, economic, and social factors that make maternity an exit gate for women.

Ashoka Universitys Genpact Centre for Womens Leadership GCWL today culminated the final phase of its Breakthrough training programme for returning and working mothers

27/11/2018

According to theorists, prejudice against women leaders emerges from an incongruity between their gender role and the more masculine social role of a leader.

26/11/2018

Despite diversity and inclusion initiatives, we don’t see as much of it in action. It is high time companies step up their game in diversified hiring and invest more into having an inclusive workforce.

A new study finds that India’s women techies are the most committed in the world when it comes to staying in the industry. It’s now up to the industry ready to make sure they can. A whopping 96 percen...

26/11/2018

Women entrepreneurs are a rising force, and they’re poised to have a significant impact on the future of work. Women are launching about 1,821 new businesses per day in the U.S.—almost double the average of 952 between 2012 and 2017.

Meet the game-changing women who are dedicated to bringing more female CEOs into the world of business.

26/11/2018

Mary Kom named of World Championships.

Boxing News: India's MC Mary Kom, who won a historic sixth world title, was adjudged the best pugilist of the 10th World Women's Boxing Championships here.

26/11/2018

The controversial law permits women and men to have an equal inheritance, contradicting the Qur’anic verse which states the share of women's inheritance is half that of men's.

The law was approved on Friday

23/11/2018

A new report from Microsoft reveals that women only represent 28 percent of employees. Amazon leads the pack with 40 percent representation as of July 2017. Google is 31 percent female. Facebook 36 percent and Apple only 32 percent.

Companies are spending millions of dollars on gender diversity programs yet it seems the programs are not giving them the results they desire. Why? Maybe they need to ask the women what they want and need to stay.

23/11/2018

Understanding the pay gap through the criteria of gender alone is reductive, and homogenising the experiences of working women does nothing except further inequality.

Understanding the pay gap through the criteria of gender alone is reductive, and homogenising the experiences of working women does nothing except further inequality

22/11/2018

Despite businesses now having to open up about their gender pay gaps, parties are failing to open up about the political gender and diversity gap across elections.

Letter: Part of the problem is that we still do not know how many women are being put forward for election by parties, write Helen Pankhurst and 19 others

22/11/2018

Many women are reporting incidents which they earlier didn’t. But all this is happening with companies in the public eye. Thousands of small & medium companies do not have committees & their attitude is “it’s a fine only.”

As India's moment has gathered steam in the past few weeks, employees across several media and entertainment companies have either been sacked or put on leave while the allegations against them are investigated. What does this recent wave mean for corporate India?