Outlook Speakout: "It's a challenge to have the same number of women at the senior level positions"

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A role model for many women, Gurveen Singh talks about her journey to the top in the corporate world and about how gender empowerment and cultural diversity are a must in the office space and also, good for business  Follow this story and more: https://www.outlookindia.com/  #OutlookSpeakOut #OutlookMagazine #OutlookGroup #Outlook

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00:00 So my challenge is really, from a corporate standpoint,

00:03 it's about making sure that I'm sustaining

00:05 the same level of women and senior leadership.

00:08 We see a massive drop-off rate when women go

00:11 from middle managers to actually senior managers,

00:14 and those could be various reasons,

00:16 for children, for not having the agile working ability,

00:19 or not being mentored on their careers

00:21 to really make and drive growth as they should.

00:24 And I think that's the bias that I really want to change,

00:27 and this is something that I'm driving

00:30 with our other managers,

00:32 and we want to make men a part of the journey,

00:34 because it cannot just be women for women.

00:36 It needs to be, the societal change will only come

00:39 when men become part of that journey

00:41 and really drive that change together.

00:43 Women's empowerment for me is much deeper

00:45 than just at the top.

00:47 It's a societal change.

00:49 It's a change when everybody comes together

00:52 to form a new kind of family,

00:54 a family that's going to drive change

00:56 at the grassroot level.

00:58 That's when real change is going to happen.

01:01 That's when women's empowerment is going to happen,

01:03 when women are given choices.

01:05 I think lots has changed.

01:07 I think number one, awareness.

01:09 And earlier there was no awareness.

01:10 Today there is a lot of awareness,

01:12 whether it be in corporates and government sector,

01:15 and whether the government is putting in programs together

01:18 to make that change.

01:19 And I think education has been a big part of it.

01:22 So the only way, 10 years back,

01:25 people didn't even talk about these subjects.

01:27 Today people are talking about it and tackling it head on.

01:30 That's the kind of change that I see

01:32 and the difference that it's made over the last 10 years.

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