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Women Empowerment in the Corporate World discusses empowering women through increasing their economic strength and confidence. It outlines the need for women's empowerment given their underrepresentation in leadership roles globally and in India specifically. The document then examines challenges women face such as family responsibilities, lack of self-confidence, and hostile work cultures. It provides data on improving representation of women in business degrees and leadership over time. Suggestions are made to empower women through training, childcare support, and increasing their entrepreneurship opportunities.

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Women Empowerment

Women Empowerment in the Corporate World discusses empowering women through increasing their economic strength and confidence. It outlines the need for women's empowerment given their underrepresentation in leadership roles globally and in India specifically. The document then examines challenges women face such as family responsibilities, lack of self-confidence, and hostile work cultures. It provides data on improving representation of women in business degrees and leadership over time. Suggestions are made to empower women through training, childcare support, and increasing their entrepreneurship opportunities.

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Women Empowerment in the

Corporate World

Aashish Sharma (01)


Jain Vaibhav (15)
Praveen Kumar (30)
Swati Sablok(42)
Presentation Flow

• What is empowerment
• Need of women empowerment
• Past and present scenarios
• Work culture in the corporate sector
• Empowering women
• Entrepreneurship and women
• Conclusion
What is Empowerment?

Empowerment refers to increasing 
the spiritual, political, social 
or economic strength of an individual or a 
community. It often involves the empowered 
developing confidence in their own capacities.
- Wikipedia
Need of Women Empowerment..
“When you educate a man, you educate an
individual; when you educate a woman you
educate a whole family.”- Mac Iver

• In the largest and most powerful organizations the


proportion of top positions held by women is
generally 2 to 3 per cent.
• A tiny proportion succeeding in breaking through
the “Glass Ceiling” to obtain top jobs.
• Participation in decision-making is proving to be one
of the most resistant areas yet for gender equality.
• The roles and rights of the women need to be
protected.
What holds women back?

• Literacy
• Family responsibilities
• Lack of self confidence
• Ethnic barriers
• Hostile culture and societal reactions
• Lack of financial help
• Fear of risk and failure
Present Scenarios

Percentage of
Master’s
Degrees in Business
Awarded to Women,
1956-1996
Present Scenarios
Present Scenarios
Present Scenarios
Work Culture

• Companies have followed three


approaches.
• Women may be discouraged from
pursuing there roles by colleagues
and superiors.
• Glass-ceiling metaphor is
oversimplified
Work Culture

• Women executives in India earn 40 percent


less than what men earn.
STUDY REPORT OF NATIONAL
KNOWLEDGE COMMISSION, 2008
THE INDIAN CONTEXT :

• There are women who have taken on the


entire world-Indra Nooyi, CEO, Pepsico,
Naina Lal Kidwai, MD, HSBC India, Pragya
Raman, group executive president of
Aditya Birla Group- to name a few.

• It is also estimated that women


entrepreneurs presently comprise about
10% of the total number of entrepreneurs
in India, with the percentage growing every
year.
THE INDIAN CONTEXT : contd..

• Despite all this feel-good news, Indian companies


seriously lack women in senior management roles.

• According to a study[2006], only 26.1 percent of


the listed companies (392 of 1,500 firms) have a
woman on their boards.

• Out of the 278 directors on the BSE Sensex


companies, there are only 10 women directors

• Apart from this, women executives in India earn 40


percent less than what men earn over theirentire
career.
Empowering women

• Aggressive and effective efforts to change business-


culture norms and move women into leadership
roles.

• Gender wage gap should be checked.

• Extensive training and education programs for


women employee.

• A childcare centre at the workplace.


Suggestions :

• Motivate the women to pursue


entrepreneurial activities.
• Potential contribution of
microfinance programmes to
women’s empowerment.
• A more comprehensive framework
for women’s participation at all
levels.
Evolution of Women Network :

• SELF HELP GROUPS (SHGs)

• Self Employment Women Association


(SEWA)- 1972

• The Confederation Of Women


Entrepreneurs (COWE)- 2004
The Changing Scenario

• Some of India’s top companies are now giving specific


mandates to head-hunting firms to fill middle and senior
management roles with women candidates.

• Bharti Enterprises and American Express have mandated


their recruitment agencies to have a certain percentage
of women candidates at the interview stage.

• While American Express asks for at least one-third


representation among those appearing for job
interviews,it is 25-30% for Bharti Enterprises.
Road ahead: Women as Entrepreneurs
Motivation Factor :

• Carter & Cannon(1988) - Need for


Independence.

• Brindley & Ritchie (1999) - Need for


flexibility due to childcare responsibilities

• Buttner and Moore (1997)- To


overcome certain barriers such as
the ‘glass ceiling’
LIJJAT PAPAD: Testimony to networking

• This pioneer batch of 7 women had set the ball


rolling on 15th March 1959.
• They had no money but started on a borrowed
sum of Rs. 80/-Self-reliance was the policy.
• With quality consciousness as the principle that
guided production.
• Lijjat grew to be the flourishing and successful
organization that it is today, a Rs. 300 Crore entity.
• Today Shri Mahila Griha Udyog has a wide range of
papad, khakra, vadi, masala, atta, bakery
products, chapati, appalam and detergent and the
network supports more than 45,000 families.
Entrepreneur are not dictated by
gender anymore

Almost 66% of the times there is no difference of


gender as a factor as given in the figure above.
Super Success Stories :

• Kiran Mazundar Shaw of Biocon


• Chanda Kochar, the incumbent MD & CEO of
ICICI Bank
• Mallika Srinivasan of Tractor And Farm
Equipments (TAFE)
• Amrita Patel of National Dairy Development
Board
• Mother Theresa-the Nobel Laurete.
• Vinita Bali of Britannia Industries
• Kalpana Chawla, Sunita Williams of NASA
• President Pratibha Patil
• Sonia Gandhi Chairperson of UPA
• Shobaa De, Arundhati Roy- Literature
• Priety Zinta from IPL
References :

• www.wikipedia.com
• www.scribd.com

• Women’s Figures: An Illustrated Guide to the


Economic Progress of Women in America By
Diana Furchtgott-Roth and Christine Stolba

• Microfinance and women’s empowerment:


Rethinking ‘best practice’- Linda Mayoux,
Independent Consultant
• Various research papers.
Thank You

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