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What are the top Women's Leadership Programmes in India? And why are they essential to women who want to lead, in any field?
Women are forging ahead in corporate India across fields. While it is true that more women are being recruited from campuses today, a study by staffing firm CIEL HR in 2023 states that only one in ten make it to top leadership roles. Women’s Leadership Programmes are so designed to help women learn the skills, strengthen and develop the tools to advance into positions of power, influence and change.
There are many known cultural and social obstacles for Indian women that impede them from achieving their leadership aspirations and dreams. Women need to recognise their strengths and celebrate them, while not letting social and cultural limitations hold them back — Women’s Leadership Programmes (WLP) can help with this transition.
In a patriarchal society, good leaders are defined by high masculine characteristics, alienating all other kinds of leadership. It is time to redefine what good leadership can and should be — not a celebration of alpha masculinity but feminine inclusivity where leadership isn’t about power but empowering others. It is no secret that a diverse workforce helps the company, business and ultimately India.
In the current workforce, every woman will agree to having been the only female at the table at least once. We all know how tricky and challenging that can be to getting your POV heard and respected. It is therefore important for successful women leaders to mentor rising women leaders and establish this strong family of women leaders that enables and empowers. Peer learning, bonding, networking with other women leaders is one of the big benefits of a Women’s Leadership Programme.
As Sneha Banerjee who completed a WLP from ISB says, “It helped me consume an enormous amount of stories of courage, success and tribulations from the fantastic cohort.”
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Women leaders have increasingly demonstrated that leadership is not all about the traditionally accepted masculine way, and that inclusion and sensitivity as a leader is a soft skill that can pay huge dividends. This insight accounts for the crucial role of Women’s Leadership Programmes that can help women not just learn these skills during their career, but also upskill to bridge a career break.
In this piece, we have a list of such programmes that you can enrol at, in India.
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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