Keeping women in the workforce is imperative as it gives women a great sense of accomplishment, keeps them in the leadership pipeline, and helps the overall economy. But, how easy is it for women to come back into the workforce? And, is a career break career suicide for women?
Are millennial women more confident about their career prospects? Kesha Shah, 23, Technology Associate at Morgan Stanley and Manasa Ramakrishna, 26, Founder of Curricooler, an education startup have a candid conversation on what success means to them as millennial women, moderated by Shonali Advani.
Women are still underrepresented in the IT sector. There are few women in senior leadership positions in the IT industry today. Is it tougher for women to succeed in tech? And, are they being taken seriously? Madhura Purnaprajna, Associate Professor at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, and Rajitha Shenoy, Lead Database Application Developer at Oracle share their experiences as female technologists in a male dominated industry.
Krithi Karanth is a leading conservation biologist. She has been studying wildlife conservation in India and its human dimensions for 16 years, and was chosen as National Geographic Society’s 10,000th grantee in 2011 and Emerging Explorer for 2012.
Sairee Chahal, founder of Sheroes and Anshulika Dubey, cofounder of Wishberry.in, share their fundraising experiences as women entrepreneurs and discuss whether the start-up ecosystem is stacked against women entrepreneurs in a tete-a-tete, moderated by Shonali Advani.
The key to our liberation is ensuring everyone has an equal chance at success and happiness. It’s consciously choosing to be open-minded and inclusive. It’s about viscerally understanding this simple truth, “I am not free while any woman is unfree, even if her shackles are very different than my own.” Here are 5 practical ways to support Feminism in our everyday lives.
In a thought provoking chat, Shalu Manan, Vice president, People Functions at Genpact, India and Bidisha Banerjee, Chief Talent Development at the Future Group discuss if the ‘Queen Bee Syndrome’ is a myth or reality- in conversation with Bhavna Toor and Shonali Advani.
Safeena Husain is the Founder of Educate Girls – an NGO tackling the root cause of gender equality by improving access to quality primary school education for girls in the educationally backward regions of India.
Richa Singh is the Co-founder of the online counseling and emotional support platform, YourDost.
Ashwini Ashokan is the Co-founder of the Artificial Intelligence company, Mad Street Den.