Does women, have found there share in the Corporate world?

Hi

I agree with deepali.

Today women are in every field where men are. But women have to look after their family with carieer.Women have to sacrifice their desires for their carieer. Women have to choose between carieer and family. though we see today women have many advantages than previous, then also men get more importance than women in the society.

 Today though women contribute their knowledge, honest efforts in every field, it might be ignored because of man's ego.

I simply say no ,because as per our politician there should be 33% reservation in every field of life ,which has not yet achieved specially in corporate world.till it is achieved can't say they are satisfied. 

Ok, agreed that women have hit the proverbial 'glass ceiling' and not received their due share. But the question we should be asking is, is it becaue of personal and family pressures, as most members have suggested, or are there impediments that the corporate itself creates for women?

Kindly change the word there to their. 

Sentence should be "Have women found their share in the corporate world"

And as nowhere we have 50% share in either job or education despite being part of 50% population, Hence they have not yet found their due share in corporate world, parliament, schools or any Public stage of world.

Women have not gone anywhere-the glass ceiling is definitely looming large.Some women have gone beyond but that is so few that the revolution is not happening there.

But it is happening at the grassroot levels- in villages.More and more women are taking up the bold stance of telling the men to keep off and sending their girls to study.

And to the many women finding fault with the  men-I am sorry-but the worst enemy to a woman is another woman.

I agree with most of the posts in this forum. But I personally believe that there is a lot of potential in women that needs to be harnessed. Abhishek is right when he says there are only a handful of women and when we take an overall scenario we wont find many in the top management. But there is a reason behind it. We would have to understand the evolution of the careers of women as we try to unravel this. When we hire freshers (both men and women) from college, they are at the same level. In fact, my experience tells me that some of the best performing employees have been women. Their families are happy and support them totally. Once the initial euphoria goes off, the family starts pestering most of the women for marriage. I have known hundreds of top-performing women leaving their jobs to go marry someone who is in a different city or a different country. What happens to her career ? Its killed just when she is about to embark on the middle-tier of the corporate. She either quits working altogether or takes up something which is below par to her ability. Considering that she survives till that stage to marry someone who supports her job/shift, after a year or two they would be facing the big question of starting a family. Once this happens, her priorities are totally changed as is wont with nature. First priority would be the baby. Best case scenario, she might lose 6-7 months of the peak-performing period of her career. Worst case scenario (am talking about complicated pregnancies), she might end up losing more than a year and half. When she rejoins back, would she be in the state of mind that she quit ? Absolutely NO. Because she has been out of touch not just with her work, but with the culture too. Suddenly people also start her differently. Major responsibilities are many times not given to new-moms because people think they would need an easy job which is stress free. Consider a second baby and then imagine where her career would be ? In the meantime, where is her peer (male) who joined work with her as a fresher by now ? he is at least 2-3 notches above her in the hierarchy. Apart from all these also, there are many other socio-economic situations which play a part in defining the career of women. To say that inspite of all this, some women make it to the top of the organization hierarchy is an achievement, is an understatement. I personally salute their spirit and their multi-tasking abilities.

The only way we can ensure that women get their due share in the corporate world, is by having a definite percentage as target (of course based on merit) for hiring women to maintain a healthy female:male ratio on the floor. I have been fortunate to work with such companies and I feel more such initiatives would ensure equal gender parity at work.

Dear Deepa,

It requires total change in mindset,for which we all have to work togather. It can not happen in overnight.