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Is India Inc doing enough to coach and create enough women CEOs?

Is India Inc doing enough to coach and create enough women CEOs?
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India Inc celebrates when its efforts towards gender diversity at the top bear fruit. However, often the reason for celebration does not last long.

Synopsis

The nature of governance lapses on the part of some of the female CEOs in India point to the glaring need of coaching, sensitisation and career development, especially for women CEOs, as they try and juggle their personal and professional lives. The baggage of social conditioning, cultural nuances and unconscious biases need to be unlearned in the process.

By , ET Bureau
5 mins read,
In a country where only one among the leading 50 companies is led by a woman, the fall from grace of women business leaders is not encouraging. Omidyar Network India head and former Crisil CEO Rupa Kudwa is the latest to join the list of women leaders like Chanda Kochhar and Chitra Ramkrishna, who faced regulatory ire for a direct or indirect lapse of conduct. Following the irregularities in the debt schemes of Franklin Templeton, Kudwa along

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