How to bring more women into the fold of leadership roles
Corporate India needs a holistic environment that includes unbiased hiring procedures, diverse leadership styles, pay parity exercises.
Synopsis
Women must develop traits like conflict management, risk taking, overcoming the ‘imposter syndrome,’ making difficult decisions and a multi-disciplinary mindset. Building these muscles from childhood is key to earning that seat in the boardroom.
Growing up in a joint family, I have very fond memories of my childhood. I enjoyed my days in the company of girlfriends at our convent school, and spent evenings playing cricket with my brothers around the neighbourhood. As I went on to attend engineering college, seeing only around 30 girls in a batch of 300 students opened my eyes to the gender diversity gap in the real world. While I went on to build a strong circle of both male and female
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