Tag: women workforce

Currently, the Company has 7000 employees, of which 11 per cent are women.

It will empower over a million women within the first year of operations through entrepreneurial opportunities.

A recent survey conducted by the Mizoram Presbyterian Church’s Synod Social Front has revealed that there are more women than men, even in abattoirs and stone quarries.

In the last decade, female labour force participation (FLFP) rate in India has fallen significantly by 10 percentage points, according to ASSOCHAM-Thought Arbitrage Research study.

There are leadership differences between men and women, which make for gender diversity in the workplace.

On an average, women comprise 3 per cent of the telecom workforce. However, at Telenor, the share of women employees has gone up to 11 per cent.

The programme takes care of women’s needs as mothers and home-makers so that they can give their best to their professions as well.

The FMCG player has introduced several new initiatives to promote a gender inclusive culture.

Women thrive when there is an alignment between the individual and the organisation. Only then can one break through the inertia and advance women at the workplace.

India Inc. needs to address the systemic, culturally ingrained issues affecting women’s workplace experiences and career trajectories in order to be fully inclusive.

Work-life balance is no longer a woman’s problem alone. The increasingly automated and brutal world of competition, finds both men and women struggling to find a balance between their professional and family commitments. But, are organisations indifferent to the needs of their workers?

Years of social conditioning has confined women to playing the roles of daughter, wife and mother, one at a time but they are capable of much more.

Vodafone becomes one of the few organisations in the world, after the United Nations, to have a uniform maternity policy, worldwide.