In a world of constant competition to prove oneself, there’s always a need to upgrade one’s skills and enhance abilities. Mumbai-based Savneet Bhasin, co-founder and CEO of ‘Springboard by UpLearn’, a Valiant Group Venture, enables both — the corporate world and children — to do just that. With an aim to help people become the […]
About 94 per cent of Fortune 1000 chief executive officers (CEOs) are men. This is not a number that the global community should be proud of, and this certainly isn’t the kind of equality women are looking for. Women are asking for an equal opportunity to get to that space. Moving on, what is it that drives the […]
Many of you would recollect Indra Nooyi’s comment on how she is unable to manage a work-life balance. How when she broke the news to her mother of becoming the CEO of PepsiCo, her mother said, “Let me explain something to you. You may be President of PepsiCo. But when you step into this house, […]
If you thought that the gender gap in IT and computing jobs in India was bad, it is also the same in other developing nations around the world. In countries like Mexico, there are a lot of challenges women face if they want to pursue a career in IT. One woman, Blanca Trevino, is trying […]
The 2017 Fortune 500 list, which was released on Wednesday (June 7), has the maximum number of women CEOs.
According to an Egon Zehnder report for 2016, India lags behind countries like China and Hong Kong when it comes to gender diversity on company boards.
Discrimination against men – yes this happens too! Scott Ard, a former senior editorial director at Yahoo, who was terminated from the digital company on January 2015, filed a lawsuit in California’s Northern District Court in San Jose recently claiming that a job review process implemented by Yahoo’s Chief Executive Marissa Mayer illegally fires men to recruit […]
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is at the receiving end of flack for taking only two weeks maternity leave and carrying her twins to work
Amongst the ‘The 25 Most Powerful Women in Banking,’ KeyCorp CEO, Beth Mooney ranked number one for the second year in a row. Earlier this week, Mooney was also named one of the “50 Most Powerful Women in Business” by Fortune. With her, American Banker credited three other KeyCorp women with their annual ‘Women […]
Starting slow, women are now rising up the top positions in companies across different sectors in the world. Early this year, Mary Barra was named the CEO of General Motors, one of world’s largest automakers by vehicle unit sales. Being a completely male-dominated Industry, GM appointing a woman as its head is a huge […]
