While there may not be many women occupying the executive offices of India, the country is home to literally millions of female entrepreneurs, in charge of their own tiny businesses, according to estimates by the International Finance Corp. The number of women running their own businesses in India is expanding and banks need to find more ways to serve them, said a report this week from the IFC, which is the private-sector arm of the World Bank. Women in India fully or partially own around three million small enterprises across the country. Their businesses include everything from tea stalls and vegetable stands to laundries and cellphone shops. The women-backed businesses employ over eight million people in India, according to the IFC report. Read More... Source: WSJ Blogs The male dominated world was always reluctant to even acknowledge the fact that women were as good as men on parameters of hard work, intelligence quotient (IQ) and leadership traits. The new generation women across the world have overcome all negative notions and have proved themselves beyond doubt in all spheres of life including the most intricate and cumbersome world of entrepreneurship. Yes, there is a section among women who believe in short-cuts but at the same time there is no dearth of women who are confident ,believe in themselves and have enormous fire in their bellies to take on the best in the business and beat them at their own game. India too has its own pool of such bold and fearless women who have made a mark for themselves both within the country as well as overseas. read more...
Courtesy : India TV News "Key pieces of data from the report showed that currently, a man starting his career in a FTSE 100 organisation is 4.5 times more likely to make it to the Executive Committee (‘ExCo’) than his female counterpart. The blockage is at the top: senior women are two times less likely to be promoted and four times less likely to leave than their male peers" YSC in partnership with the 30% Club and professional services firm KPMG published a research that undermines ten myths around how women progress to the top. Myth 1 – Women don’t aspire to senior leadership roles Myth 2 – Women don’t stick it out to make it to the very top Myth 3 – Childbearing stops women getting to the top Myth 4 – Women don’t get to the top because they lack confidence Myth 5 – Women lack the leadership qualities needed at the top Myth 6 – Women don’t’ have the networks that open doors to the top Myth 7 – Senior women leaders pull up the career ladder behind them Myth 8 – High potential programmes are fast-tracking women Myth 9 – Formal flexible working arrangements ease women’s route to the top Myth 10 – The business case for gender diversity is working The full report can be viewed online here. or watch the video http://www.ysc.com/news/news-item/cracking-the-code-research-report-launch Getty Images launched the “Lean In Collection” in partnership with LeanIn.org, featuring more than 2,500 photos of female leadership in contemporary work and life. The project began when Pam Grossman, director of visual trends at Getty Images, commissioned a study that would track the changes in the representation of girls and women in the media. The study turned into a presentation that Grossman later shared with Sheryl Sandberg and the Lean In team at Facebook Headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif. Read the full article http://www.buzzfeed.com/ashleyperez/stock-photos-that-hope-to-change-the-way-we-look-at-women Even a casual glance at the news over the past twelve months suggests that women are making big strides — better educated than ever, stepping into high-profile CEO slots at companies like IBM and Yahoo, and, according to one much-publicized study, outnumbering men as the primary breadwinners in their households. Even so, in major U.S. companies, the percentage of women at or near the top has flat-lined.
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Jean Kilbourne is an internationally renowned author, speaker and filmmaker for her work on the image of women in advertising. Killing us softly is a series of lectures she delivers around the world, raising awareness on the subtle manipulations done by media for profit maximizing that has social impacts. Watch a small fragment here... A hard-hitting feature, Kajarya depicts the hardships groping women in our country today. Armed with a feel of authenticity, the film has generated immense interest in the international market.
Written and directed by Anand, Kajarya is about two women hailing from two different milieus, colliding in a world where girls are better off dead. So, at the core of the film lies the story of women in India, both in villages as well as cities Read more... |
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