Chennai, March 17: The Madras Management Association last week organised its annual Women Managers’ Convention on the theme ‘The Millennial Woman’. Women from all walks of life came together to exchange notes and share stories — of success, failure, and supporting other women at the workplace and elsewhere...
March 17,2017
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Three years ago, a 36-year old woman accused her superior at a newspaper of sexual misconduct. He would not only allegedly make sexually coloured remarks, but also insist that she accompany him to his hotel room during field work. She was sacked and hasn’t found a job since.
March 17,2017
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100 Best Companies for Women in India 2017, a pioneering initiative to benchmark India Inc’s women inclusive practices, is inviting nominations for its second edition. The program recognizes and rewards best practices of companies across industry segments...
March 09,2017
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Mumbai: Women's attrition remains a big challenge for companies. Tapping into the vast potential of women from underprivileged sections of society could provide the requisite solution through simple methods of creating career intentional initiatives...
March 08,2017
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International Women’s Day is here and for those of us who work for gender diversity, it is among the busiest of seasons. Juggling time on my calendar to attend the ‘office-warming’ of a friend’s 500-seater IT company, I had a very gratifying vision as I looked at the lines of empty workstations and cubicles. An image of neat rows of women occupying those seats! Women closing deals, stylish women writing code...
March 07,2017
read more Embellishing the CV, identity theft, lies about work experience have become common A top multinational company (MNC), which is into financial services, discovered that its latest recruit, an entry-level executive, had lied in his CV. He claimed to have scored 78% in n his PG course while his original scores were at a mere 58%. At the time of the discovery, the employee had already spent six months in the organisation and...
March 02,2017
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KOLKATA: Anumita Mukherjee, a Durgapur-based media professional, was looking for freelance opportunities after a year-long break. But it wasn't easy to find a job with a good salary and flexible hours through the usual channels. Finally, a friend pointed her to a website that helps women like her find jobs...
February 12,2017
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Mumbai: When it comes to parental leave, it appears companies in India are competing to offer the best leave possible. Over the last few years, companies have upped the game on paternity leave — with some offering a week, to a few progressive companies moving to a fortnight. Cummins India has now set a new...
February 23,2017
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Mumbai: When it comes to parental leave, it appears companies in India are competing to offer the best leave possible. Over the last few years, companies have upped the game on paternity leave — with some offering a week, to a few progressive companies moving to a fortnight. Cummins India has now set a new...
February 23,2017
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One of the earliest voices to speak on gender diversity and inclusion of women in work spaces from India, Dr Saundarya Rajesh is an award-winning social entrepreneur from Chennai. Best known for pioneering work in creating second careers for women...
February 15,2017
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KOLKATA: Anumita Mukherjee, a Durgapur-based media professional, was looking for freelance opportunities after a year-long break. But it wasn't easy to find a job with a good salary and flexible hours through the usual channels. Finally, a friend pointed her to a website that helps women like her find jobs...
February 12,2017
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Counselling mothers who return to work is not new, but in recent times it has attained the status of a structured programme In a span of five years, Divya quit her job twice. The first time she did so, it was six months after she had returned to work from her first maternity break. After a year’s break, she got a job as part of a second career programme offered by a BPO. Two years into her new job, she resigned again.
January 27,2017
read more MUMBAI: Several organisations have over the last few years introduced new policies to curtail attrition among women employees post maternity . Between 2003 and 2010, according to Avtar, a diversity and inclusion consulting firm, over 48% of employed women under 30 years of age dropped out of the workforce due to maternity and childcare.
January 02,2017
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Hailing from a middle class family in Puducherry, Dr. Saundarya Rajesh was faced with the usual questions of whether she should choose home or career. Leveraging the power of a woman workforce was unheard of in the 90s, and having taken a career break herself, Dr Saundarya Rajesh knew it isn’t to get back into the corporate system.
February 26,2016
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