Branding feminists as anti-national, for raising their voices against manels sounds ridiculous, but that is exactly what it has come to. Over the past few days Skoch Group and its chairman Sameer Kochhar have been under fire for numerous manels at the company’s 2018 Skoch Summit. When one Twitter user questioned why there were so […]
Why do we need a Women Writers’ Fest? I have lost count of the number of times I’ve been asked this. Surely writing is gender agnostic? Surely work is measured by merit and not gender? Surely, with all the pitched battles women fight, gender in the writing is not something they would want to carve […]
The pink paper initiative of Economic Survey 2018 got bleached by Finance Ministry’s all-male Budget team. There is no point in committing ‘to further the cause of women empowerment’ if you cannot find one woman for the Union Budget team. We got Manelled again When the Chief Economic Advisor flashed that pink report to us, our hopes […]
Recently, a leading business magazine held a round table panel discussion in Bengaluru on digital transformation. Ten Chief Experience Officers from varying online ventures, participated in the discussion. Let’s rephrase that. Ten male CXOs participated in the discussion. As the organizers could not find a single suitable woman. Maybe this was an oversight from the […]
Where are the women? We need you at more conferences! If the question is how? Then here are eight ways of end the saga of missing women at events. Last year we did a study with SheThePeople on the composition of newsroom panels in the Indian television industry and not surprisingly, over 80% of them […]
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