What is a leaky pipeline and how can it help companies fix the gender gap?
Gender diversity at the workplace has long been a key issue for companies. From 23 per cent, the share of women dwindles to 13 per cent at the CXO level, 10 per cent as executive directors, and just 5 per cent as managing directors or chief executive officers, according to data from primeinfobase.com primeinfobase.com provides timely, complete, credible and clean data and analytics on corporates in an extremely easy-to-use and searchable manner. “One of the key ways companies can fix the leaky bucket is by focusing on the women who return,” says Dr Ashwini Deshpande, professor and head of the department of economics and academic director at the Centre for Economic Data and Analysis, Ashoka University. It is no surprise that women who take a career break receive 49 per cent fewer callbacks than other women with similar profiles but no career gap, according to the report ‘The Returnship Road’ by Godrej Industries Group’s DEI Lab and CEDA. Many companies today have returnship programmes focused on helping women who have taken career breaks re-enter the workforce.
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