For women, returnship programs have a long way to go

Returnship programmes, which give experienced professionals a chance to return to the workplace after a career break, have gained much momentum in the last year-and-a-half owing to the disruption in way we work. Yet, only 2% of women, who left the workforce over the last five years have benefited from such programmes and successfully re-joined the workforce, a new study released by management consultancy Zinnov today has found. For the survey, Returnship Programs in India, Zinnov spoke to over 40 multinational and Indian organisations with returnship programmes about the effectiveness of their programme and the challenges. Returnship programmes are short-term training programs, like internships, for experienced individuals, mostly women, who have taken a break from their corporate career.