Gender Diversity Ratio in B Schools All-time high
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Low gender diversity ratio used to be a perpetual
pain-area for leading business schools in the country until recent years. Not,
anymore.
Top management institutes across the country have
reported a higher number of girl students in the campus compared to past years.
While a gradual
rise in the trend for the past few years could be seen, this year the batch of
2019-21, broke all records by making it an all-time high.
IIM
Sambalpur reported to have 51% girls students followed by LIBA Chennai at 50.5; MICA at 50%; FORE School of
Management - 48.5%; IIM Indore - 42%;
IIM Trichy - 40%; IFMR Graduate School of Business, Sricity - 39%; TAPMI 38%;
IIM Bangalore & IRMA - 37% each; IIM
Lucknow - 36.5%; IIM Calcutta - 32%, IIM
Kozhikode -30%.
To a great extent, yes.
Indian management institutes left no stones unturned to respond to market
demands for diversity by working on the prevalent skewed gender
ratio and successfully managed to improve it.
The phenomenal growth
in female aspirants of CAT (and other MBA entrance exams too) has been the
other contributor. Refer chart.
Industry should be more than happy to embrace this trend as the challenge to induct more female professionals in order to balance the gender equality ratio, has been plaguing the Indian recruiters as much as their global counter parts.
How adequate is the Pipeline?
About
28% of the overall workforce of India constitutes female staff but as one goes
up the ladder of corporate India (female population 48.5%), the number turns
out to be abysmally low and remain stagnant. According to Prime Database, 67 of
1814 CXOs in NSE-listed companies are women as of Mar 2019. Which is 3.69% and
the same was 3.2% as of Mar 2014.
This challenge is faced
across the globe and according to WEF Global Gender Gap Report, India stands
108th out 144 participating countries.
Globally, in S&P 500
Companies, it is 44.7% at the entry level and 5% as it comes to the top of the
pyramid. According to a study by Women in the Workplace 2018,
conducted by McKinsey in partnership with LeanIn.Org, the gender diversity
figures have not improved much.
According to the Fortune 1000 list of companies, 22% women were found in the board in 2018.
Despite the genuine
intent of the campus recruiters to attract higher number of talents from the
fairer sex, ample numbers of candidates were not always available in during
placement sessions, which hopefully will not be the case in days to come as
hiring managers will have a sizable number of girl candidates in campus to
select from.
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