Power And Leadership: What Stops Women From Leveraging Their Skills?
Do women and leadership go hand in hand? Yes they do and these women making a mark on their industries are proving it everyday.
Do women and leadership go hand in hand? Yes they do and these women making a mark on their industries are proving it everyday.
Powerful by Nirupama Subramanian: Changing the conversation from how stereotypes shackle women to how they can enable them, Nirupama Subramanian in Powerful: The Indian Woman’s Guide to Unlocking Her Full Potential uses the wisdom of archetypes to provide practical advice to women to claim the powers they need to achieve their goals. An Excerpt: My […]
It is important that women capitalize on this experience to lay down healthy boundaries and share the responsibility of domestic tasks.
Nirupama Subramanian talks about how we can handle our day-to-day challenges better through STEP. STEP is based on many concepts and models and also on lived experiences that psychologists and experts have proposed. Reena’s story I am the Service Delivery Manager for a team in a leading ITES company. My customers are in the US. I […]
I recently enjoyed reading The Forest of Enchantments by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. The book not only tells the Ramayana from Sita’s perspective, it also brings into the light certain neglected characters from the epic. The woman characters are well fleshed out and we can connect to the emotions and motivations of Kaushalya, Mandodari and Urmila who […]
“I don’t want to mentor a woman,” confessed a senior leader at a corporate I was working with for a coaching and mentoring program.” I support women and all that but these days. I just don’t want to be in a situation where it might get uncomfortable,” he added, looking a little embarrassed while admitting […]
Over the last few days, I found myself doing something that I don’t usually do and don’t usually want to do. Giving Advice. As a coach, I have learnt that giving advice or telling people what to do is a big No-No. We are supposed to let people discover their answers themselves, to dive deep […]
“Don’t do it for me. Don’t do it for you. Somewhere there is an eight-year-old girl who is dreaming of becoming a criminal. Do this for her.” I am watching Ocean’s Eight with my daughter and we have just heard the leading lady, Debbie Ocean, legitimize the dream of a career in crime. The movie […]
Female friendships offer not only fun and entertainment but also act as a buffer against a hostile world, says Nirupama Subramanian. Is there something special about female friendships? I wondered. I had just watched the movie Veere di wedding with a friend. In the movie, four women who have been friends since school, smoke, drink, […]
“I sent my eight-months-old baby to day care and went back to work,’ confessed a young mother during a workshop. Her eyes became moist and she flinched as though she expected the other women to pelt her with stones, each heavy with the words ‘ Bad Mother’. “Why don’t fathers feel any guilt leaving their […]